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10 things that block your Happiness (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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10 things that block your Happiness

Self-hatred
Not being able to let go of the past.
Not being able to forgive yourself.
Not being able to value who you are.
Assuming RAID is backup.
Not making backups.
Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
Needing other people to validate you.
Letting other people define who you are.
Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

RAID with parity is technically a backup, just a mostly ineffective one. It’s a backup that allows you to recover from exactly one scenario, single (or double) device hardware failure.

But I definitely understand the mantra “RAID is not a backup”. It’s not what most people think of when they say “backup”.