On 9/3/25 5:53 PM, alain williams wrote:
We were talking about RAID a few days ago and how they are different from backups. • RAID helps to protect you against hardware failure, the idea is that you can have a disk fail and still continue running, then replace the broken disk and rebuild to give you a protected system. Learning point: Use RAID for must-never-stop systems AND have backups. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/
The bottom-line is to back up. +1 for a wiki page on RAID, LVM, DRBD, ZFS... -- John Doe