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A cheap storage VPS won't give you 11 9s of durability, though. Chances are a single drive failure will cause data loss.
by icebraining 8y ago
A cheap storage VPS won't give you 11 9s of durability, though. Chances are a single drive failure will cause data loss.
- z3t4 8y agoYou can hash the data at regular intervals to make sure it's intact. For example adding this command to crontab: /usr/bin/md5sum --quiet -c md5sum.chk
- lucb1e 8y agoIt's your backup, not your primary system. The odds that more than one drive fails within the same, say, week, is probably perfectly acceptable for most people.