[asterisk-users] While the VoIP-Info.org site is down...

[Stephen Bosch]

Patrick May wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Matt wrote:
>> Yikes.. you'd think a server would be running RAID.
>>
>> At any rate.. Please feel free to visit http://www.voip-wiki.us
>>
>> I have set this up to be able to hold information for the Asterisk
>> community.  I will also gladly allow others to mirror it.
>>
>> It is sitting in a climate controlled data center in Central PA on a server
>> with RAID.  Additionally, it is at the end of 95Megabytes/second on a BGP
>> redundant connection.
>>
>> Please feel free to use it, if the community feels it can be useful...
>> additionally, I would love to setup some rsync mirrors with others so that
>> we can have redundant backups of this very valuable information.
> 
> The previous message to the list was they lost 3 of 4 drives in the array. 
> I'm not sure of any RAID that can sustain 75% hardware loss and still function.

As somebody else has already pointed out -- "There must be more to it."
Let's say three of four drives failed -- the odds of them failing at the
same time are vanishingly slim; but if you're not paying attention, and
you operate with a degraded volume, well... then you get what you deserve.

RAID or no RAID, the site should have one or more mirrors.

-Stephen-