Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:05:25 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Answer - RAID died. Re: Device not configured / Can't check filesystem. Message-ID: <19980930100525.B28108@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980930042710.00ace9b8@mail.peace.com.my>; from chas on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:27:10AM %2B0800 References: <3.0.32.19980930042710.00ace9b8@mail.peace.com.my>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 at 04:27 SAT, chas wrote: > > Moral of the story : backup, even if it's on redundant RAID 5. > (learned the hard way ) Of course. :-) RAID protects you agains (a single) disk failure, and absolutely does _not_ protect you against some other things, like filesystem corruption (through whatever means). I'd suggest a nice DLT or AIT drive to go with that RAID box of yours. :-) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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