From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3? Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:13:09 -0400 Message-ID: <449C0505.8000601@tmr.com> References: <449AEB7C.6040108@cjx.com> <449BE381.6070000@cjx.com> <68c491a60606230746m5c1f0301g8e00fdd4f0e0739b@mail.gmail.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: <68c491a60606230746m5c1f0301g8e00fdd4f0e0739b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Schr=F6der?= Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Martin Schr=F6der wrote: > 2006/6/23, Francois Barre : > >> Loosing data is worse than loosing anything else. You can buy you > > > That's why RAID is no excuse for backups.=20 The problem is that there is no cost effective backup available. When a= =20 tape was the same size as a disk and 10% the cost, backups were=20 practical. Today anything larger than hobby size disk is just not easy=20 to back up. Anything large enough to be useful is expensive, small medi= a=20 or something you can't take off-site and lock in a vault aren't backups= =20 so much as copies, which may protect against some problems, but which=20 provide little to no protection against site disasters. --=20 bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html