Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:43:14 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Raid1 DM vs MD |
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>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.
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