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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 344873" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>RAID is not a factor, if a disk fails, it fails. It would have failed, RAID or not. Either way, that's when you need a disk image backup (backed up recently, every week or so). At failure, just bolt in a replacement disk, and restore the last backup, and 15 minutes later, you're up and running again, just like it was at last backup. There is no concern about trying to rescue failed data, because that is unimportant, you simply restore your current backup, 15 minutes. Often 10 minutes.</p><p></p><p>Not sure of your words, but just copying some files elsewhere is a crummy backup plan, not really a backup. The copied files is not a full system, and is not a bootable replacement, and is mostly useless. Sure, you may be able to recover your data files, that's good, but you still have to start from scratch, and reinstall the OS, and reinstall all programs again. Instead, a disk image backup is needed, makes everything very simple, a very simple job, only a few minutes. Normally, the first disk failure will teach this. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Even if the disk did not fail, maybe if the dumb computer just developed a strange problem and is not running right now, who cares? Just restore your backup, and 15 minutes later, it just like it always was. Restore is really a rather trivial operation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 344873, member: 12496"] RAID is not a factor, if a disk fails, it fails. It would have failed, RAID or not. Either way, that's when you need a disk image backup (backed up recently, every week or so). At failure, just bolt in a replacement disk, and restore the last backup, and 15 minutes later, you're up and running again, just like it was at last backup. There is no concern about trying to rescue failed data, because that is unimportant, you simply restore your current backup, 15 minutes. Often 10 minutes. Not sure of your words, but just copying some files elsewhere is a crummy backup plan, not really a backup. The copied files is not a full system, and is not a bootable replacement, and is mostly useless. Sure, you may be able to recover your data files, that's good, but you still have to start from scratch, and reinstall the OS, and reinstall all programs again. Instead, a disk image backup is needed, makes everything very simple, a very simple job, only a few minutes. Normally, the first disk failure will teach this. :) Even if the disk did not fail, maybe if the dumb computer just developed a strange problem and is not running right now, who cares? Just restore your backup, and 15 minutes later, it just like it always was. Restore is really a rather trivial operation. [/QUOTE]
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