[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:05:23PM +0000, Nix wrote:

> I suppose there is the problem that the only thing big enough to back it
> up onto is another SAN... but still, if you don't back it up, you have
> to make damn sure that the SAN's controlling software would never ever
> lose its contents. I'm not sure mathematical proof would be strong
> enough for me: I'd also want a proof that no single/double-bit errors,
> disk losses, overshoots, missed seeks, or uncommanded writes anywhere in
> the SAN could lead to massive data loss.
> 
> I doubt I can get a SAN that satisfies those requirements, so for me I'm
> going to stick with backups.

A couple of simple questions:

* what SAN is fireproof ?

* what SAN will know to not delete data when a user does 'rm' in error ?

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