> On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:32 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. > > > > 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. > > The amount of resources invested trying to fix this by someone is > probably more than the costs of some ECC RAM and a MB >
This is very true in the developed world. In "developing world", investing in ECC RAM and MB to go is equivalent to monthly salary of 2-8 local staff. And many times even more. As a consultant with significantly higher cost of labour it is still usually more cost-effective to throw money at work instead of hardware. Regards, Ville _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
