From: "Robert Comer" 

> That's good.  I run into too many people who think that data are backed
> up because the data are on RAID 5 storage.

I had my very first RAID 5 blowout a couple months ago, not fun at all.

One good thing is it proved my disaster recover plan. 

--
Bob Comer


"/m"  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 29 May 2006 07:18:38 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>  wrote:
>
>>"/m"  wrote in message
>>news:7hoj72p2ro36r1abst5av90gii56bims6s{at}4ax.com...
>>> Redundancy != backups
>>>
>>> Make sure you have that server in a backup scheme.
>>
>>Yay, I've got a good friend who's company has a remote backup service, I
>>use
>>that. It's pretty neat, it does incremental backups every night over an
>>SSH
>>connection to their servers, and emails the reports of every backup to me.
>
> That's good.  I run into too many people who think that data are backed
> up because the data are on RAID 5 storage.
>
> I installed cygwin here so that I can run rsync for my incremental and
> full backups.  On my FreeBSD and OpenBSD boxen, I also use rsync for
> backups, in some instances to a removable drive, in other intsnaces to a
> remote server.
>
> /m

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