On 2025-08-29, alain williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 03:57:42PM -0000, Greg wrote: > > RAID is NOT backup - if you delete a file on a RAID-1 (mirror) system then the > file is deleted on both mirrors. Much the same on other RAID levels.
Thank you for this because it provides a succinct explanation of why RAID is not a strategy for backup. In fact, it seems it would be a backup disaster (a mistake on one disk would reverberate to all the others).
