Originally posted by: rdubbz420
RAID1 isn?t really a backup solution since it doesn?t protect data from corruption, viruses, accidental deletion or your house burning down. I run RAID1 but also backup to an external hard drive periodically and store it at my dad?s house.
Agree - I run RAID1 at home & work, but it's really only protection from a disk failure. I have scripts that back up the important stuff, and occasionally burn a DVD and put it somewhere else as well.
Along those lines, we had a scare yesterday - started getting all kinds of I/O errors on the head node of our cluster

Which is a 3 disk RAID0 - yea, don't tell me, I know :| I've never been happy about that and always treat that volume as if failure is eminent. Somehow, a bios upgrade on the RAID card brought it back, but any complacency that might have been developing has been knocked flat.