Disk-a-Geddon
This article about the limitations of RAID (with large enough amounts of storage) sounds like a real call to start backing up. It's dated from 2007 - I'd love to know if there's any reason to think RAID isn't reaching the limits Robin Harris talks about.
In a vaguely related vein, Google's GDrive is getting closer. Time Machine makes Mac backups easier, but it sounds like Google wants to take what Amazon has with S3 one step further and make a bunch of use cases easier. Off site backup is coming within the reach of mere mortals...
Comments
RAID is not, and never was Backup
[Rick DeNatale] January 30, 2009 13:21:20.257
RAID improves availability and serviceability in the face of drive failures. But it can't save you from software failures or operator errors which corrupt data or delete wanted files. RAID just makes the unwanted changes more robust, but no more wanted.
That's what backups are for, to protect against things that RAID won't.
[] January 30, 2009 14:49:50.462
When has there *not* been a call to back up?!