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kudos:3 | reply to itguy05
Re: Glad it was NOT an MS Platform Ummm.. last I checked, it's noting really to do with SUN/Orocale, Microsoft, etc.. a hard drive failure or what ever is a failure.. but, you're right to say that it's amazing that a HARD DRIVE can be recovered..
It also shows that a GOOD company would have a backup system in place on anything mission critical... this was a complete failure on some admins' part. |
 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | RAID should be recoverable.
Backups, should be done, and should work. The question is... when was the last successful backup perfomed ? Were there issues in replacing hardware (old?).
I've had very good success rate on SUN boxes. Its a simpler OS in general (*nix), however OS = OS disks, Data = Data disks.
You can always reinstall OS. You can't always recover data.
If you have a decent data center management, patches/OS/firmware upgrades will typically be kept in check. I've known of issues in the past of attempting to get disks/RAID controllers and having different rev versions... painful.
Many high end vendor products are well integrated - Eg. I worked on a DG-UX device with EMC storage on fiber channel. Disk failure (OS) was mitigated, as the EMC controller rebuilt the disk, even while the box was powered down.
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