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Re: Backup. Mirror or RAID!



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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Michael Harris wrote:

> If one drive fails, you lose NO data... just continue with the remaining
> drive.  
> 
> This essentially eliminates backups, with one potential drawback.  If
> for security or other reasons, you want to move the data to another
> location (for example, if you're concerned that your computer may be
> stolen or you need to transfer the data to another computer) this would
> be a problem.

Your backups are useful if you accidentally delete files or if you have a 
catastrophic failure affecting both drives.

Cheers,

Jim