>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.
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.