From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:04:57 +0000 Message-ID: <419B3E69.3020803@dgreaves.com> References: <200411132039.iADKdDN07474@www.watkins-home.com> <41968282.6060306@dgreaves.com> <4198DF79.8080809@dgreaves.com> <41999A9B.2000907@wasp.net.au> <419B3435.3080707@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Brad Campbell , Guy , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: >David Greaves writes: > =20 > >>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. >> =20 >> >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. > =20 > 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.=20 It's a bummer to lose but in the grand scheme of things it's only the t= elly. My _real_ personal data (photos etc) are mirrored onto physically=20 seperate disks each night. The 'backups' are remounted read-only. It's=20 the 'rsync snapshot' method. See: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Thanks for your concern though :)