Help with XFS

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Sat Jun 19 10:14:38 CDT 2010


On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

> Le Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:30:43 +0200
> Thomas Førde <thomas.forde at bergenofs.no> écrivait:
>
>> ill see if we can rebuild a different SAN with mirror functionalityt,
>> y have 384x300GB disk in my SAN, so it should be possible.
>
> No, a mirror will corrupt your data as well, a simple copy is better;

Exactly.  High availability and backups are two different things, although 
people often confuse them.

Here are my notes from my backup talk:

http://www.timetraveller.org/talks/backup_talk.pdf

This approach is honed over many years, having done many disaster 
recoveries in the real world.

Cheers,

Rob

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