Your analysis is correct--RAID protects against disk failure, not against
other failures (such as NT eating itself, or for that matter, people
accidentally deleting files); it is not a replacement for tape backup, it
complements tape backup.
Dave
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
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> I run 5 linux boxes and 2 NT servers on a network. All servers have 9G
> scsi drives in them. Currently we back up the most important data to DDS3
> tape..about 11G. We would like a better solution to this for full
> redundancy. We thought about putting another 9G in each server and doing
> software raid1 (on linux at least, dunno how we could do this in NT)
>
> So we thought, ok that solves us if we have a hardware (drive) problem,
> but what if it's software that gets corrupted along the way, or something
> gets installed that on reboot will break it. Then you got 2 exact copies
> of bad data. For example..our 1 NT server was up for like a month and a
> half, I rebooted it one day and it never came back up. It wasn't a
> hardware problem, but something with windows. Now if i was doing raid 1,
> it wouldn't matter, i'd still have a windows that wont boot on both
> drives.
>
> Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Tony
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