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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 13:23:55 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        "jim@ohlste.in" <jim@ohlste.in>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS root on single SSD?
Message-ID:  <20170516132355.e7346f50.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9997fd01-273c-b176-b9ed-e33e9e2d1b2f@ohlste.in>
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 06:34:38 -0400, jim@ohlste.in wrote:
> I'd add only that while a mirrored zpool offers some data protection, it 
> is *not* an effective "backup" solution for important data. Drive 
> failure during resilver after a drive replacement does occur. If there's 
> important data on the drive, backing it up to a different medium is 
> still essential, whether it's a mirrored pool or a single drive pool. 
> [Leaned once the hard way]™

Relatesd typical CTO or IT superior management or executive
statement: "We don't need backup, we have RAID!" ;-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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