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I thought this meant they do have some sort of backup:

However, while we planned for the case of the server losing a disk or entirely biting the dust, or the total loss of the VM’s filesystem...



I read that as meaning that their mirroring strategy makes sure to detect these conditions and avoid clobbering the intact replicas in the event.


They were autosyncing. They were prepared for not being able to sync (restore main system and sync back), but not for the sync to replicate a corrupt state.

Any backup strategy with only one backup (instead of preserving historical snapshots) is vulnerable this way.




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