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Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 00:06:46 -0700
From: "David Rees" <drees76@gmail.com>
To: "Kasper Sandberg" <lkml@metanurb.dk>
Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs
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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
>  in other words, would i be
>  safer to run rsync every day to my other disk, and run in non-raid
>  mode?!

What would be safer is to run rsync every day from one redundant array
to another array - preferably on another machine that is located as
far away as possible from the one that you are backing up.

RAID is not the same as a backup, though unfortunately, too many
people treat it as such.

-Dave