software raid on removable drives for backups

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jason Joines wrote:
>
> 	My boss wanted to be able to retrieve data up to twelve weeks old even
> if one drive of a set died.  We were using RAID 5 with 4 drives.  We had
> several drive failures over the years they were in use but no data loss
> thanks to the RAID.

i have to ask.  what kind of drives are you using, how many died, and over
how many years?  With just 4 drives, any more than a single drive failure
over ~3 years suggests a bigger issue.

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