wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> from raid(4):
> 
>      a RAID 4 or 5 system, or the loss of a single component of a RAID 0 sys-
>      tem, will result in the entire filesystems on that RAID device being
>      lost.  RAID is NOT a substitute for good backup practices.
> 
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, at the best, RAID is good protection against hw failure. Backups
are still needed to recover accidentaly removed or trashed data (i.e.
to recover from user mistakes).

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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