On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote:
>> Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
>> situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single
>> hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with
>> ~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard drive, but with no
>> recourse that is what I had to do.
> 
> I think the real key thing to take away from this is, when you are
> talking datasets of this size, YOU MUST HAVE REDUNDANCY in your storage.
>  Otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette with a revolver having an
> unknown number of loaded chambers.
> 
> 

Phil, I would said playing Russian roulette without a missing ball :-)

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