Re: Invalid Page Headers - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Invalid Page Headers
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Msg-id 20060421025744.GT49405@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Invalid Page Headers  ("Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:07:13PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> But I'm still disappointed in the hardware bleed-through affecting
> the filesystem. :(

I (well, http://stats.distributed.net/) has been bit by this before. One
issue with RAID is that it does you no good if you don't get
notification that a drive has failed. Even after that, there's still
risk of another failure before a sucessful rebuild, and of course
something can always go wrong during recovery.

In a nutshell, RAID's still no replacement for backups.
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