Re: What is the point of RAID?
On 11/07/08 16:15, Ken Heard wrote:
[snip]
The only way I can think of to avoid such a situation in this particular
box where there are only two drives in the RAID array, it to have a
third drive with everything but the /home partition stored in it, and
Or any common "data" partitions, as in a server.
use the RAID array only for /home. If so, I wonder why I should bother
with RAID, as all data in the /home partition-directory needs to be
backed up periodically in any event.
Because:
(a) you don't do continuous backups, so there would be some data
loss, and
(b) restoring from backup media takes *time*. If downtime is
expensive, you spend the extra money to minimize the possibility of
downtime.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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