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Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy

2011-09-30 08:36:09
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Fairly large backuppc pool (4TB) moved with backuppc_tarpccopy
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:34:08 +0200
On 2011-09-30 12:51, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Thats stupid.
> 
> Raid5: Loose one disk during recovery -> you are screwed.
> Raid6: Loose two disks during recovery -> you are screwed.

Further:

Raid5: Lose power during write operation = silent data corruption, which
you'll find out about next time you try to rebuild.

Use RAID-10, RAID-Z, or an equivalent RAID+copy-on-write parity disk system.

Regards,
Tyler

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