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Redundancy is not backup based on industry standard terms. Redundancy protects against some hardware failures but not accidental deletes, filesystem corruption,
by seized 6y ago
Redundancy is not backup based on industry standard terms. Redundancy protects against some hardware failures but not accidental deletes, filesystem corruption, malware, or a whole host of other things.
Even filesystems with snapshots can be lost and snapshots are the only time you can start blurring the lines between redundancy and backups in terms of protecting against data loss via deletes etc. And they are still not proper backups as you can still have a hardware failure significant enough to wipe out all your data.
A backup is a separate copy of data, either on separate hardware or off-site or a other combinations. Based on best practices and standard terminology.
No one uses "redundancy" to refer to separate copies of data especially when discussing RAID in contexts like this discussion. So the only interpretation of your comment is the weak one that I responded to.