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Re:Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping ... by lultimouomo on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:24AM (#50019483)
You can have as much redundancy as you like on your RAID, but if you fat finger an rm -r it's all gone.

A real backup protects both against hardware faults and accidental deletion.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping ... by j45 on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:32AM (#50021076)
I’m not implying Raid 5 on its own is a complete backup.

Within a storage array though it does provide redundancy at that level, and generally speaking most people don’t access a raid or NAS at a shell level only where they drop rm -fr’s

Separate and offsite backups are non negotiable, however running a raid 5 locally can greatly reduce storage rebuild/restore time, if a single drive fails the rest of the raid continues to work fine until replaced.

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