Cheapest way to backup data

Gordon Marx gcmarx-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 22 12:38:12 EST 2009


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM, 100ji <itz100ji-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hmm, is this the property of all raid levels though? What about raid 6 where
> there is a parity bit set which can be used to recover the data? I read some
> pages on raid and I am unable to confirm that RAID only provides data
> integrity. Probably the performance sucks, but that's a trade off.

That isn't a backup, though. If your computer explodes, no RAID level
will help you. An offsite backup would.

Gordon





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