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2009-01-03

Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

"Journalspace.com has fallen and can't get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business."


http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214

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