Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:23:19 -0600 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Message-ID: <a05200f01ba412c5a28d4@[12.27.220.113]> In-Reply-To: <20030106051858.U33984-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <20030106051858.U33984-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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At 5:22 AM -0800 2003/01/06, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> Repeat after me:
>
> RAID is NOT a backup.
Absolutely. If I gave the impression that I thought it was, I apologize.
> You're smarter than this Brad, there are many reasons to do backups, and
> disk failure is one of the least common reasons (ie, how many times have
> you had to restore user files deleted accidentally vs. due to hardware
> failure?)
RAID is one key component of the system, but only one. In this
case, I would be primarly using it to get logical filesystems that
are sufficiently large for the volume of video editing work I'd be
doing, not for the types of increased reliability it can offer.
Clearly, once you've got all this stuff, then you need to back it
up. And that's probably where the largest amount of money will be
spent. ;-(
I'm just trying to find somewhat less expensive ways to backup
the data I've got, and the data I anticipate having.
And I want to do it in a cross-platform environment, which gives
me a reasonable chance of having the backups continue to be readable
and useable, even after an OS upgrade or three on either the clients
or the server(s).
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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