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by teej 6287 days ago
ACID isn't an excuse to skip redunancy and backups.
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Good point, and I didn't mean to suggest that the one precludes the other. However, the ma.gnol.ia story is a tale of redundancy - they were backing up corrupted data for weeks, and once they realized this, it was too late. The database took weeks to fail, and their backups were worthless.