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  • atimehoodie@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs RAID still needed?
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    3 months ago

    Media failure isn’t the only reason to back up. If you delete a file on a RAID array, it’s gone on all disks. If you need to recover that deleted file, you can’t recover from RAID. The same goes for formatting/damage of the file system, recovery from something wrong inside a database, etc.