On Fri,07.Nov.08, 16:48:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/07/08 16:15, Ken Heard wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> The only way I can think of to avoid such a situation in this particular
>> box where there are only two drives in the RAID array, it to have a
>> third drive with everything but the /home partition stored in it, and
>
> Or any common "data" partitions, as in a server.
>
>> use the RAID array only for /home. If so, I wonder why I should bother
>> with RAID, as all data in the /home partition-directory needs to be
>> backed up periodically in any event.
>
> Because:
> (a) you don't do continuous backups, so there would be some data loss, and
^^^^^^^^^^
Just in case it wasn't obvious, RAID is not a replacement for backups.Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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