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From: "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Subject: RE: Is My Data DESTROYED?!
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:36:51 -0500
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> Sir - Whereas Neil, et al, profess that RAID is NOT equal to BACKUP -
> Most of us know that tape backup is VERY costly, in several ways, in our

	No one used the word "tape".  Tapes have not been a practical means
of backups for many systems for quite some years.  Today, for most large
systems, the most practical backup solution is hard drive based.  Since the
OP already has a RAID10 system he has enough or nearly enough drives for a
hard drive based backup.  Since he is already talking about a remote NAS
system, his additional costs can be as low as $0, or at most the cost two or
three additional drives.