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10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (21 children)

RAID 0 is the best way to ensure data redundancy. It's what we use at every Fortune500 company and there's not an issue.

[–] Jesus_666 42 points 6 days ago (15 children)

But it's still not a backup strategy. You should always have a second partition on the server that you sync your data over to. For performance reasons this partition should be on the same RAID 0 array.

[–] chellomere 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Backing up to a different partition on the same RAID array sounds like a good way to lose all your data.

The backup should be physically separate from the original.

[–] qaz 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes, and it should use another type of media, like tape, glass, stone tablets or optical media

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

We have a bard travel accross the lands and carry out our data by singing epics about it.

That's a valid backup because it's a different media, correct?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

oral traditions have survived an astoundingly long time, albeit with some bitrot

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It shall live on through the generations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

As long as you are fine with corruption.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

NEVER test your backups. It wears out the tapes faster.

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