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What to do guard against corrupt files

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by cmtbob

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I would like some feedback from anyone who would has any ideas!

We use RAID controllers and multiple hard drives to protect our data from hardware failures but what do we do to protect against data corruption? Of course we use back up systems butif a system boot file or registry hive get corrupted you still have to reinstall the server before you can restore from a back up. What are small business doing to avoid the downtime from file corruption?

Thanks for the input.
cmtbob

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by cg it

Mirroring the drives provides fault tolerance where if a file required on the main drive becomes corrupted, then it's pulled from the mirror until you can rebuild the main drive.

by cmtbob

I thought a corrupted file from the main drive would mirror on to the second drive. If thats not true why do we get corrupted registry hives?

by negrao.

you can creat a mirror disk of your drive where NT is installed, this will prevend fisical faillure if you want to prevent logical error also, the best I do is creat mirror of OS and break the mirror after it was created. So if you lost your instalation you can recover from the mirror, don?t forget to update/recreate the mirror every time (or 1 time a week) you change something that affect your OS.

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