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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
Cc: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>, Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:04:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419B3E69.3020803@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1x4qjog1lf.fsf@ford.inprovide.com>

Måns Rullgård wrote:

>David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> writes:
>  
>
>>I've been tracking this on the ide list and I've been nervous of
>>applying anything since I don't have proper  backups. I'm relying on
>>redundancy.
>>    
>>
>RAID can *never* replace proper backups.  RAID only protects against
>low-level disk failures.  Filesystem corruption caused by bugs,
>accidental deleting of files, etc. are happily allowed.  Get a DVD
>burner, you'll thank yourself one day.
>  
>
Got one.
I have 935Gb of data (soon to be 1.2Tb)
Each DVD holds 4.7Gb and takes 20-30 mins to burn.
Any other ideas ? ;)

David

PS Seriously - the data is films, my CDs, DVDs, TV shows and the like. 
It's a bummer to lose but in the grand scheme of things it's only the telly.
My _real_ personal data (photos etc) are mirrored onto physically 
seperate disks each night. The 'backups' are remounted read-only. It's 
the 'rsync snapshot' method.

See: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Thanks for your concern though :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-12 10:07 RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA David Greaves
2004-11-12 12:17 ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 16:22   ` Dick Streefland
2004-11-12 17:31     ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 17:49       ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:13         ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 17:48   ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:09   ` Guy
2004-11-12 18:30     ` David Greaves
2004-11-12 18:47       ` Guy
2004-11-13 19:48         ` David Greaves
2004-11-13 20:01           ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-13 20:28             ` David Greaves
2004-11-13 20:32               ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-13 20:39           ` Guy
2004-11-13 21:54             ` David Greaves
2004-11-15 16:55               ` David Greaves
2004-11-16  6:13                 ` Brad Campbell
2004-11-17 11:21                   ` David Greaves
2004-11-17 11:24                     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-17 11:44                       ` Brad Campbell
2004-11-17 12:04                       ` David Greaves [this message]
2004-11-15 20:56 ` Robin Bowes
2004-11-15 21:24   ` Guy
2004-11-15 21:30     ` Robin Bowes
2004-11-15 21:39     ` Gordon Henderson

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