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		andrewvc on Dec 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How multi-disk failures happen And this is why, everywhere I've ever worked, I've had to say RAID is NOT backup. There are varying degrees of receptiveness to this, because actual backups are a giant pain in the ass, and have a very annoying lifecycle.

DanBC on Dec 31, 2012 [–]

There are better reasons for RAID not being back than this obscure rare fault condition.

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