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I Nearly Lost All of My Data (2019) (kevq.uk)
2 points by dsego on Dec 22, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>At this point I’m really worried. You see, I cancelled my off-site Amazon Glacier backups around 6 months ago. What are the chances of both a 4 disk RAID failing AND a USB drive at the same time? Not likely, I thought. Boy was I wrong.

Err:

1) Power surge - multiple fried disks.

2) House fire - multiple burned disks.

3) Flood - multiple soaked disks.

4) Burglary - multiple stolen disks.

5) Corruption at the origin level - writing BS to the RAID and the external USB drive.

Off site / Cloud backups are essential.




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