looks at my raid of HDDs backing up my raid of SSDs

also before everyone slaps me with “why aren’t you using zfs?” it’s because I keep swapping out drives and testing various file systems whenever they get new features, which mdadm will accept even with the most insane unreccomended setups.

Also using it in my mad pursuit to figure out what Stratis is supposed to be useful for.

“Son, the time has finally come. Today I’m going to teach you TNO (Trust No One) security.”

my two-year-old stares blankly at me

Testing restore time is a key part of being a miracle worker. That way you can tell them it’ll take three times as long.

6. RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

My house burned down right after building my first raid array. It hadn’t even been put into use. The plan was to move all the data from assorted servers, desktops and laptops in my house to the array THEN backup that volume to something offsite. /sigh

It INFURIATES me how many companies will spend money on backups, but not ever test that their backups restore or allow for continued functionality afterwards.

At one company, I banged this drum for years, and one day we had a situation where someone “accidentally” deleted all the media from a client website. I had to dig through several backups and rebuild from beta, which annoyed me endlessly, but I dropped the “I fucking told you so” several times, and hinted that our “restore scripts weren’t working as intended” to the client. It took me a full day to do what should have taken maybe 1-2 hours at most…

Who is still using raid? It’s not 2006.

The amount of times we define a DRP procedure, testing times and so on, just to be told “it’s not THAT important” is staggering to say the least.

At that point I figure backups are the least of my worries. These people like to live on the EDGE

I lost a devastating bunch of data when I was very young. Lots of it irreplaceable. Since then I’ve always tried to have a redundant backup strategy

But is #7 true if they don’t have a backup?