Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Martin Schröder wrote:

> 2006/6/23, Francois Barre <francois.barre@gmail.com>:
>
>> Loosing data is worse than loosing anything else. You can buy you
>
>
> That's why RAID is no excuse for backups. 


The problem is that there is no cost effective backup available. When a 
tape was the same size as a disk and 10% the cost, backups were 
practical. Today anything larger than hobby size disk is just not easy 
to back up. Anything large enough to be useful is expensive, small media 
or something you can't take off-site and lock in a vault aren't backups 
so much as copies, which may protect against some problems, but which 
provide little to no protection against site disasters.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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