erland wrote: > It's nice to hear that I'm not alone with this kind of experience, I > started think that my experience with people recovering a RAID system > and ending up in a scenario where the recovery takes too long or fails > was a rare exception. > >
I had a RAID-5 array for many years, using linux software RAID. That array lasted through 3 computers, 4 operating systems and two bad disks, but one day it went bad and would not recover no matter what I did. But I DID keep full backups (the last of which had just happened two days before) so I was able to completely recover everything. Even with the array messed up I could still get the data off the array, but it was not functioning like it should. (but that was unnecessary because of the backup). But this backing up to hard drives is still so much better than "in the old days" using tapes to do backup. I had two different tape systems and was diligent in making backups. But the two times I had a total disk meltdown and needed to do a restore the tapes would not read on the same drive that wrote them. A complete waste of time and money. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
