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My next machine will definately be at least RAID 1 (maybe raid 0-1 or 1-0). Drives have gotten bigger and cheaper over the years, but I hate to trust them.

Also note that a RAID array would not have solved this problem, if it really is filesystem corruption. And there are other failure modes it's not proof to, either: a failing power supply can toast every drive in a system. If you care about it, back it up either to CD/DVD, or to a separate machine (preferably off-site; if you and a friend both have broadband, think about keeping encrypted backups for each other using Duplicity or similar). And if you're doing automated backups, either do incremental backups, or keep enough old backups that you never get in this unfortunate situation where a backup of a wiped directory overwrote the one previous backup of the actual data.

Peter


Edited by Roger (21/10/2006 08:56)