Re: Install and RAID
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:58:43AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:53:50AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > But if all you're worried about is having a backup of your data, then you
> > could use any number of other methods to mirror data from one drive to the
> > other and use that as a backup solution;
>
> Such methods will always have a window between the time the backup is
> run and the time the disk crashes. Soft raid eliminates that.
At the same time, those methods give you a window between the time the backup
is run and the time that a file is corrupted, overwritten or deleted. Soft
raid takes that away from you.
Software RAID and backups are different solutions for different problems.
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- mdz
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