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Is a RAID a backup?
No, and it is the most repeated confusion in this trade. A drive array with redundancy protects against one specific thing: a drive breaking. It breaks, the system carries on working and the part is changed without shutting down. That is a lot, and it is all it does.
It does not protect against somebody deleting the recording, nor against it being deleted on purpose by somebody who had permission. It does not protect against the fire that takes the cabinet, nor against the theft of the recorder, which is the first thing anyone who knows what they are doing takes. And if what is being written is wrong, it is written wrong to every drive at once.
So storage is decided with two questions: how long does this keep working if a part breaks, and what happens if the whole site disappears. The second has no technical answer; the client decides it, and the answer is usually to take off site only what cannot be lost.
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