10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
6:58 p.m.
On 10/8/12 8:43 AM, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/08/2012 11:09 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
RAID != backup != offsite backup!
And management questioned when I designed the digital image archiving system
for a museum when I had the assets deposited to a farm of servers (each with
a RAID array), then copied to a Sun server with a large raid array and a
tape backup library that was running software that made the tapes look like
part of the RAID array, and pulling a backup of new data onto specially ID'd
tapes in the library that were spit out of the library once full and taken
to an offsite temp/humidity controlled storage facility. One of the reqs
for the system was that if a meteor hit the facility with the servers we
could after getting duplicate hardware installed in a new facility we could
restore from the tapes and be back online within 7 days
RAID !=
backup
It does not help if you have a fire. A few businesses have been lost due
to not remembering this.