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[mishra]

Ah, ok. To be honest though when I delete something I'm happy for it to be gone forever, so having it deleted from the RAID at the same time would save me the work of deleting it again from an external back up.

RAID setup is there to protect your system and your data from a hard drive failure.
Backup regime should be in place to protect your data regardless of hardware. You may control what you delete 24/7 but if your data get corrupted, or you get infected by some crap that will mess with your data ... RAID will be of totally no use. That is why you need backup in place. Ideally off-site solution, using on-line service is a nice idea, but simple syncing your data to usb drive and leaving it at your'r mum/friends/work place will work nice too.

I'm personally backing all files on regular basis to my additional drive on PC and once-a-month I'm doing the same to USB drive which is kept at my work place. Also that drive at work is trucrypted so only I can really use it. I know this going a little too far, but would not like the fact loosing all my photos, documents, mp3, etc ... to a burglar, fire or a thunder.

 

[PokerFace]

Some good points there mishra.

Thanks