On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > 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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