On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote:
> Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
> situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single
> hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with
> ~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard drive, but with no
> recourse that is what I had to do.
I think the real key thing to take away from this is, when you are
talking datasets of this size, YOU MUST HAVE REDUNDANCY in your storage.
Otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette with a revolver having an
unknown number of loaded chambers.
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