[dundee] ESATA Linux Support

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:50:49 +0000, Simon Wells wrote:

> It is debatable though as to whether RAID and other forms of online
> storage constitutes a *backup* system. It goes some way towards
> enabling you to recover from short term hardware failure but doesn't
> help when it comes to data corruption where you need to restore from
> a known good backup.

Right, or when you've just deleted that file you really wanted to keep.
RAID is good to help you keep going through drive failures or just to
build really big storage arrays with more aggregate bandwidth than a
single disk can give, but it won't help you against a rm -rf /


Andrew