Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -0000, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > If you have no redundancy (RAID, LVM mirror, btrfs, zfs, …) you may
> > have lost data.
>
> I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and
> vice-versa, so Bruce better have backups, no?
What was also said in that thread, and is generally accepted, is that
the main reason why "RAID is not a backup" is that a failed storage
device isn't the only thing that can damage your data. Human error is
actually more common than storage device failure.
Thanks,
Andy
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