From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Allen Subject: Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3? Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:17:15 +0100 Message-ID: <449C05FB.2010101@cjx.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. > > We have 50TB stored data now and maybe 250TB this time next year. We mirror the most recent 20TB to a secondary array and rely on the RAID for the rest. I can't think of a practical tape backup strategy given tape sizes at=20 the moment... - 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