On Lu, 10 sep 12, 17:38:39, Veljko wrote: > > I've never thought that RAID is backup. It's not. Server I'm trying to > set up is backup. It's not perfect solution, but is better then nothing. > Yes, in a perfect world I would set another one in case something > happened to this one, but that's the road I can't go. So if two disks in > same mirror pair dies simultaneously I'll lose all data. I'm aware of > that. RAID, however, provides certain level of redundancy. If one disk > dies, I didn't lose data. I will rebuild it. > > It all comes to "what if". What if you lose production, backup server > and backup of your backup server? Well, that is not very likely, but > still can happen. I won't have that backup of backup, but will be muck > more happier then now, having no backup at all.
If you ignore the references to the proprietary backup software this is a very interesting reading http://www.taobackup.com/ Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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