Re: Re: Utterly Gutted

["Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Yes - I always told other people to backup - just never followed my own
advice - I thought my raid system removed the requirement - silly me. Oh
well I'll get over it no doubt. At least we have hard copies of most of the
photos!


Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: ianh1000<mailto:ianh1000@xxxxxxx>
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 29 August 2004 21:15
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Utterly Gutted



Hi Chris, My thoughts are with you, having lost this sort of data in
the past I know what it is like. I recommend/sell many RAID solutions
at work upt to many tens of TB but you still need to back them up.
They may offer more protection that a single disk but do not cover a
RAID control failer or even more often user error. If you delete data
by istake it it taken away from a RAID solution just the same.

Whatever technology you use, BACKUP! BACKUP! BACKUP!

Regards
Ian

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...> wrote:
>
> Didn't Graham Howe have a similar problem about a year ago?
>
> Shitty luck though - my comiserations.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Purves [mailto:CHRIS_PURVES@M...]
> > Sent: 29 August 2004 21:00
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some
> > of you don't make the mistakes I did......
> >
> > I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000
> > hardware raid card with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by
> > any stretch of the imagination) thinking this would keep my
> > data safe. One of the drives failed yesterday -  I didn't
> > panic - put in a replacement - the array rebuilt itself and
> > all the lights went green. Rebooted XP and nothing..... the
> > array appeared as un-partitioned space. All the data is gone
> > including all our photos (including those of my newborn
> > daughter) / videos all our documents. The 500 albums I ripped
> > and god knows what else.
> >
> > I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they are
> > in any way safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get
> > backing up - Raid as far as I can see is worthless. The one
> > time I needed it it failed.
> >
> >
> > Chris (Gutted)
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
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