If I could afford it, I'd have RAID50 on our fileservers. Right now, I'm on RAID5 plus hot-spare plus daily backups. I hope to add an 'backup-to-disk' option onto a cheap ATA-RAID array, too. I'm a believer in double-redundancy (might be from serving on submarines [Wink] )

Your provider definitely sounds like it's not telling the whole truth. Why would a RAID5 rebuild fail unless there's more than just one harddrive that's broken? Would indicate that the RAID controller is not doing it's job correctly. Maybe it's software-RAID5 ? [Eek!]

With regards to the 4-hour restore, depending on backup technology used, I'd say it's acceptable, depending on how much data has to be restored. Do you have your own server box or is your website just a tiny part of a web server farm?

[ 09. August 2003, 16:11: Message edited by: sealeopard ]
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