From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 01:06:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19968 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA19942 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zOHGH-0007Jx-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19980930100525.B28108@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:05:25 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: chas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Answer - RAID died. Re: Device not configured / Can't check filesystem. Mail-Followup-To: chas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.32.19980930042710.00ace9b8@mail.peace.com.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980930042710.00ace9b8@mail.peace.com.my>; from chas on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:27:10AM +0800 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 at 04:27 SAT, chas wrote: > > Moral of the story : backup, even if it's on redundant RAID 5. > (learned the hard way ) Of course. :-) RAID protects you agains (a single) disk failure, and absolutely does _not_ protect you against some other things, like filesystem corruption (through whatever means). I'd suggest a nice DLT or AIT drive to go with that RAID box of yours. :-) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message