On 08/10/12 11:43 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/08/2012 11:09 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
RAID !=
backup
It does not help if you have a fire. A few businesses have been lost due
to not remembering this.
RAID != backup != offsite backup!
I consider RAID as an availability measure - but how many installations
have you seen that have spare disks on-hand and procedures to monitor
and replace them? (I am sure the serious ones do. Elsewhere, every
cowboy sysadmin configures RAID on day 1... but where are the disks? :)
--T