8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
4:13 p.m.
> It does
not help if you have a fire. A few
businesses have been lost due
>> to not remembering this.
>
>? ? RAID != backup != offsite backup! 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? :)
In the case of the products we build, the disks are
spares marked as such in the storage array. If a
drive dies in a redundant array (RAIDs 1, 5, 6, or
10), a spare is automatically pulled in and rebuilt.
BLS