Why RAID is not enough...

JournalSpace, a popular provider of blog hosting has closed its doors and selling off its assets. It's reason? They didn't have backups! They had been running a RAID 1 implementation for redundancy and assumed that it would prevent them from catastrophe. Although the specific cause is unknown, it appears that somehow the database that runs the site was wiped out and could not be retrieved. They did acknowledge that a database copy did not exist which does pose a question. How many organizations do proper backups? More importantly, how many of them test their restores on a regular basis to ensure that what was backed up can actually be restored properly?

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