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Backups are important, but we were talking about drive failures. Backups help when you screw up the data; RAID6 helps when drives go bad. If you don't trust the hardware, RAID.
Backups only means you're down until you restore; RAID5/6 means you stay up.
Right, but he was talking about the 3 2 1 rule and you recommended RAID6.
But he was responding to someone who was unconfortable with putting all their eggs in one basket. That's not what backups are for.