On 15/11/10 10:32 AM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | On 2010-11-15 10:21:06, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > | > | Backups. > | > | Even if you upgrade your hardware to better stuff... with ECC and so on ... > | There is no substitute for backups. Period. If you care about your data, > | you will do backups. Period. > > Backups are not going to save you from bad memory writing corrupted data to > disk.
It is, however, a major motive for using ZFS in the first place. --Toby > > If your RAM flips a bit and writes garbage to disk, and you back up that > garbage, guess what: Your backups are full of garbage. > > Invest in ECC RAM and hardware that is, at the least, less likely to screw > you. > > Test your backups to ensure you can trust them. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
