On Fri,07.Nov.08, 16:48:49, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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 ^^^^^^^^^^ Just in case it wasn't obvious, RAID is not a replacement for backups. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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