Re: Raid1 DM vs MD
From: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh_at_linux01.gwdg.de)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:43:14 +0100 (MET) To: Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net>
>I had one MD-Raid1 where a good copy of the mirror was overwritten by the
>bad (old) copy ... I lost 3 Month worth of data and I am expecting loosing
>a linux project and in the worst case - even a court case :(
Yep, happened to me too, and ever since, I refrain from using MD, but instead a
good (read: my own) backup solution. It's even a little cheaper since you do
not to spare a partition/harddisk of the same size you're mirroring, but can
simply put the .tar.bz2 (+.acl.bz2) onto another fs.
Jan Engelhardt
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