Never use RAID as your backup system

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[–]Anman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

As for my current 2018 setup, I am running an iMAC

This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Based on this line alone the entire article can be ignored.

RAID 1 has saved me tonnes of times.

[–]noice 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's not a backup system though. You still need a mechanism to cover any other scenario than disk failure

[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Are you saying, a system that creates a copy of itself, to store in a separate location (eg, not a different drive), is not a backup? It's a backup.

If you copy your data onto a separate drive and store it at a different location. Is that a backup? No it's not, what if the second building catches on fire? That is what this apple faggot is saying.

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    [–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    No. I am backing up from hardware failure. I do not back up for stupid users. EG, not myself and people like you.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Sorry, I replied to the wrong comment.

    [–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I stand by my words, even if I do not remember what I was talking about. High levels of conviction.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    That's the definition of good backups though whether you like it or not.

    Having a SPOF completely defeats the purpose of a backup. What you have is availability that you prefer calling a backup. Those are not the same two things. While you as a normie might be fine with that, nerds actually realize the fucking difference. Apple consoomer or not, fucker is still right.

    [–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Did you read the article? I read the first part at least.

    THIS IS NOT A BACKUP SYSTEM (in reference to RAID)

    It is a back up system. If there is hard ware failure, a backup is available.

    The end.