Browsing articles tagged with " consistent"
Feb
25
2011

Just how important is write cache?

12-hdd-2_5

Recently saw the following problem from a customer: They are using Acronis Backup to store their backup on a server powered by DSS V6. From time to time the backup run failed due to an unknown network problem. Luckily the first question we asked them when they called us was about the RAID controller cache settings. Bingo! They told us the RAID controller cache was OFF and the cache mode was set to “write through” [...]

Feb
23
2011

It is impossible to delete this file!

16-Sun-Ultra-II-1998

This short story is about how important backing up your data is and how sometimes incidents that people have with regards to data loss or having a second copy of the data are affected. There was a TV show that I saw about a very outraged girl where someone had stolen her photo, which happen to be a very privet photo of her that she was ashamed about, none the less it was stolen and [...]