[ldm-users] raid / Re: Fedora 7 redux: BUSTED!

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:

> And that is a serious consideration.  We have to store in perpetuity, and it 
> gets messy if we start losing data.  Been there once, had one helluvatime 
> getting data restored.  We lost one disk and initiated the rebuild 
> (automatically) but lost two more drives almost immediately. Unrecoverable. 
> Good news: we had a distributed archive site with the data and we were, over 
> time, able to repopulate the 2 or so TB we had lost.  Our database told us 
> what should be recovered and a subsequent audit showed we had recovered 
> everything...

Cool!

> But, go with what meets your needs and fits your budget.  If you, like me, 
> are in academia, sometimes meeting budget is more important than a lot of 
> other considerations.

I also do tarballs, and put the backups on other machines. That's how I 
get around that possibility. Yeah, I wish I could do more. But you don't 
want to know how (not) important backups are to a lot of people.

I lost 4 hard drives and still got almost everything back as a result of 
our building (heck, our community) being a lightning rod in August. And 
Thursday looks like a potential nightmare scenario up here as well for 
severe weather. Who needs April and May to chase tornadoes when you have 
October?

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