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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Subject: Re: RAID backup
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:36:20 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <200210031326.47386.roy@karlsbakk.net> from "Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk" at Oct 03, 2002 01:26:47 PM
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> > Might it not be a good idea to DD the raw contents of each disk to a tape
> > drive, just incase you fubar the array?  It would be time consuming, but at
> > least you could restore your data in the event that it gets corrupted.
> 
> er
> 
> 16 120GB disks?

A fast, large tape backup :-)

Seriously, if this is crucial data, (E.G. solution to Fermat's last theorum), I was just pointing out that you can backup, even without mounting the disks.

John.