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One of the first questions I ask techs I'm considering bringing on to help is if RAID is a backup. If I see them physically cringe at the thought, I know they'
by Baeocystin 10y ago
One of the first questions I ask techs I'm considering bringing on to help is if RAID is a backup. If I see them physically cringe at the thought, I know they've got potential.
- flukus 10y agoI'm an awful sysadmin, but why would anyone thing RAID is a backup? Two minutes of googling should show that it's not.
- Baeocystin 10y agoThe number of people who understand the difference between resiliency and duplication, even in the tech world, is smaller than you would think. And far too many people think they are good sysadmins because they installed a file server that one time. "Thankfully", problems like CryptoLocker have, paradoxically, made my job as a sysadmin easier, as now most companies I work for are familiar with the horror stories of how someone lost years of work/all their bay pictures/etc and did not have a reliable, cold-storage backup to deal to recover from such attacks.