Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -0000, Greg wrote: > On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have no redundancy (RAID, LVM mirror, btrfs, zfs, …) you may > > have lost data. > > I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and > vice-versa, so Bruce better have backups, no?
What was also said in that thread, and is generally accepted, is that the main reason why "RAID is not a backup" is that a failed storage device isn't the only thing that can damage your data. Human error is actually more common than storage device failure. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
