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:lol: wonders if anyone else sees the irony in us redundantly stating that RAID is not a backup.
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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I work someplace where we use the crap out of our high end HD arrays. Drives go bad all the time and yes you can lose files on a RAID array!!!!!. I have had this happen! Plus if your house burns...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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it's not a dead horse if the question is still being asked..
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Can I help it that there seems to be an endless supply of live horses waiting to be bludgeon to death and beyond?
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Raid can also get you in trouble at home if your hardware fails trying to rebuild it can be difficult or impossible if using hardware raid. Just keep your files on a 2nd disc at home and use the...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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RAID is a form to increase redundancy and higher I/O throughput performance, it has nothing to do with backup.
It has the advantage of minimizing down-time in case a drive failure occurs during...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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Please know that RAID technology is NOT a form of backup. It's a form of disaster recovery and method to provide QoS, but not a backup plan. Nothing wrong with having a bit of both.
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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A RAID mirror has more than one copy, but obviously doesn't protect against user error or possible data corruption, and you could use RAID as the backup, i.e., second copy. So I think you mean to say...
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Sure hope you don't make decisions for a company LOL.
RAID IS NOT BACKUP...in fact only some forms of RAID provide any redundancy at all.
RAID can help or hinder depends on implementation and...
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Nitpicking, but technically there is only one copy (version) in a RAID mirror. It's just stored in multiple locations.
RAID is part of a disaster recovery solution. It has nothing to do with...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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I never understood the "RAID does not equal backup" at first until I figured out that in my mind, the only thing I was worried about replacing was a single failing hard drive. In this case, RAID...
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For more info search RAID in this forum. The question gets asked and answered once every 60-90 days...
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My point was that RAID by itself is not backup, but it could be a backup if it was, for instance, being used to backup your computer on a weekly basis. Everyone just loves the "RAID isn't backup"...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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That's funny. I consider my ripped DVDs, Blu-rays, and music to be backups of my physical media.
I guess I should consider backing up my backups?
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I disagree.. most people want to know they can at the drop of a hat recover any important document or picture.... they don't have time or expertise to troubleshoot RAID parity rebuilding..LOL
Much...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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RAID doesn't not comply with the "keep one copy offsite" rule.
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I would only do cloud backup if it was encrypted from the source. That being said, you should be aware that many cloud backup services that I've seen won't allow you to directly restore all your data...
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NEITHER (By themselves)....
Blu Ray or DVD/CD (Tape)
Then Cloud
Then Harddrive
You should have THREE different backups on different technology.
Optical satisfies READ ONLY and easy...
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I would say cloud as well as other forms. Raids are nice and all, but theft or a house fire will still cause you to lose everything.
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http://zeldor.biz/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/RAID.jpg
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$60 software, supports any mix of drive sizes you want, supports multiple drive failures without losing the array (a 2nd drive failure during rebuild only loses data on the failed drives, not all...
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This is the dumbest argument. RAID, by itself, is not backup, just like Cloud, by itself, is not backup, just like ANYTHING, by itself, is not backup, by definition. But yes, any of those can be used...
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:lol:
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I'm glad that I don't have to search your previous posts to link to.
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cloud.
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I've been planning to put a RAID together for a couple years now and keep putting it off because of the time and effort involved.
However, now there are great offsite cloud-based backup options...
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I think the confusion lies within the definition of BACKUP.
When I say BACKUP, I mean that there are multiple copies of a file, so if something happens to the original, there's another copy that...
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Raid is not backup as noted by many already. And for many home users, it is overkill to have that level of harware redundancy\fault tolerance in place.
As to cloud based backups...would not touch...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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Backup is what OP stated
He got his answer RAID is not backup by a vast majority of posters here.
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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Works as long as you are not this guy....."Lost my Flexraid Array!"
http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php?topic=1543.0
RAID in any form is not backup. Its helpful but not a replacement for...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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Note my 95% disclaimer. Plus in the linked thread he didn't lose any data, he only had to rebuild parity from scratch.
Use cloud or off site backup for critical data of course, but a software...
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perhaps people shouldn't assume that others meant to say something else, in order to make themselves have an easy answer
the question of if raid or cloud is better for backup has been answered:...
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Thread created 02-01-2013 by uscpsycho
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Oh honey child you're talking of two separate things. backup for starters (and a wrong assessment at that) then data recovery. Some times those can be one and the same, but not for RAID.
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LOL the point of raid is backup - If a disk gets hosed then you can recover the data.
If you backup to DVD, remember regular DVD's degrade over 10-20 years. You can buy archive grade DVD's, they...
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The definition of "backup" means you have more than one copies of data. Not the data storage media (ex. hard drives). The advantage of keeping a backup over only using RAID is that if you...
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I'll rephrase then, most people asking about RAID on a tech forum just want basic data protection.
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RAID is NOT backup!
Ahhhh. Haven't said in quite a while on this forum. LOL
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Maybe we can find a beef supplier to help us with our horse problem. :bulb:
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I think they love it because it's true.
Having supported many scenarios in which the end user runs a RAID5 and backs up to a separate partition on the same RAID, when you lose 2 drives in that...
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You speaking from experience?
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