Raid 1

[Gerald Dachs]

Quoting Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:

> Since then, I became a paranoid with keeping my data safe from harm. I
> have several machines and there’s a lot of files spawned among them.
> Call it “Distributed backuping”. Unfortunately,  it’s not very useful so
> I decided I had to have a system that was yet easily usable.
>
> RAID 1 was the answer.

Just to make something clear: RAID 1 is no replacement for a working  
backup strategy! In real life most of us loose data much more often  
because we deleted
the wrong file, or some of our programms behave ugly instead of a  
broken harddisk. The files will be deleted, or destroyed on all disks  
of the raid in milliseconds.

You have to have a working backup strategy first if you are really paranoid.
After this you can follow Karls advice, but you don't have to, if you can live
with the loose of one days work.

Gerald

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