On 9/3/25 5:53 PM, alain williams wrote:
We were talking about RAID a few days ago and how they are different from
backups.
• RAID helps to protect you against hardware failure, the idea is that you can
have a disk fail and still continue running, then replace the broken disk and
rebuild to give you a protected system.
Learning point: Use RAID for must-never-stop systems AND have backups.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/
The bottom-line is to back up.
+1 for a wiki page on RAID, LVM, DRBD, ZFS...
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John Doe
