from Laz: ” Lots of people don’t think about backups for one thing. Another is they have that “it won’t happen to me” mentality. Well, I have seen more than my share of drives fail, and brothers and sisters, it dang sure can happen to you. In fact, I have seen two statistical anomalies/impossibilities in the last couple of years alone, and that was two separate servers, made by two separate vendors, that at two separate times, had two drives fail at the same time. This took out a RAID 5 array on one server, and a mirror on the other. Luckily though, my team knows and understands backups so it was really a non-event, we pulled the data off of tape and were back in business. Aaah, but if there wasn’t a good backup!!?? “ [ Read more ... ]
