Re: [tlug] Setting up a RAID 1 with Ubuntu (Was: Hard Drive Failure)

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Monday September 15 2008 05:00, Edward Middleton wrote:
>You are talking about the merits of backup versus raid.  This is
> pretty analogous to ABS breaks(raid) and airbags(backup).  ABS might
> stop you having an accident, airbags will lessen the impact.  If you
> have the option of both, which you do, you should do both.

You definitely want both if possible. RAID doesn't protect against user 
error, such as a stray "rm -f". Or from buggy software that corrupts 
data or other files. Backups do, assuming the problem is discovered 
before the backup media is reused.

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