Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> [2010.05.04.1808 +0200]:
> > I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an
> > external lvm2?
>
> RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability measure.

But as data availability goes up by using RAID doesn't the need for 
backing up that same data go down? Or is this just semantics?

Hugo