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Posted by sonicboomboy, 05-01-2005, 08:51 AM
Hi all, As I am not a web host I wondered if someone could give me some independant opinions of this outage at nethosted.co.uk which is still a serious problem 32 hours after detection. The thread on their website is here: nethosted.co.uk/topic560 The host claims: "It is extremely unfortunate turn of events that could not have been either predicted or prevented." Backups on the same drive: "Q: Andrew, correct me if I am wrong but are you saying you have the backups stored on the same disks that are part of the RAID 1? A: Yes we had them stored on a backup partition on the drives that were in RAID(1)." Any comments would be appreciated, Thanks, Concerned customer of Net Hosted.
Posted by Immortalone, 05-01-2005, 09:46 AM
32 hours down is really poor
Posted by astutiumRob, 05-04-2005, 10:20 PM
Backing up to the same mirrored aray is a quick way to kill off your hard drives. Either run them as mirrors (raid1) in which case individual drive failure wont matter, or backup to a separate disk - better yet both so when a client calls up and says " err , i err deleted my website this morning " you can always get it back for them