XPost: aus.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:12:22 +1000, keithr0 wrote:   
      
   > ... with any useful sort of RAID implementation, you can hot replace   
   > the bad drive, without the need to restore from backup.   
      
   That’s where the “high availability” comes in.   
      
   > All the data remains available throughout.   
      
   Until you discover a software bug (or an operator screwup) has deleted   
   an important database. Which you then need to restore from ... where?   
      
   > I spent 20 years working on large storage systems, beginning with   
   > boxes of 128 5 1/4" 9gig SCSI drives, going on with larger and   
   > larger drives dropping to 3 1/2" SCSI then Ultra SCSI, fibre channel   
   > and finally SOS (SCSI Over Serial) drives.   
      
   Presumably, judging from your comments, you were more on the hardware   
   side, not the software side.   
      
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