Slides from May talk now available

[Jamon Camisso]

Ken Burtch wrote:
> Hello Rob,
> 
> Thanks for the slides.
> 
> I hope "Don't backup ... use RAID 1" was not referring to my blog entry
> a couple of months ago.
> 
> Just to be clear (if it was me): I was talking about data
> integrity...ensuring corrupted files aren't written to the backup.  With
> modern drives and terabytes of data that lingers for years, that photo
> of your mom you took 10 years ago getting corrupted is a real problem.
> I've got Apple II files that I can no longer generate sitting on my
> website and they are irreplaceable.  Any one of them could get ruined by
> a single bad block but would still be blissfully written to a backup
> disk or tape without anyone being the wiser.  I don't know why a thread
> got started on TLUG that said that RAID 1 made backups unnecessary.
> Clearly those people didn't read my article.

What thread was that? I don't recall anyone advocating RAID anything as 
a backup solution on this list in the last year or more. I'm sure if 
they had we'd have collectively got out our pitchforks and torches and 
sent said person running for the hills.

Jamon
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