Yes we do, normal people don't know and don't care about what you just said.

That's why people are whining because they didn't care enough. It's really their own fault.

Let me repeat: "Keeping anything important in one place is a bad idea"

Blame the victims but not the government?

What part of keeping your information in one place is a bad idea don't you understand? Maybe that group would just decide to take the money and run and shut down all their servers.

I dont think thats the point this article is making, especially here. Its just showing that megaupload really wasn't the all nefarious piracy centric site that the DoJ/FBI is making it out to seem. It was being used for legitimate purposes, and those people are fucked because of our government, the ones supposed to protect us.

Having some people use the site for legitimate purposes does nothing to negate the evidence brought forward in the indictment.

If the owners took the money and ran would you not say that was a wrong thing for them to do?

That isn't a reasonable argument to make for regular (non-techie) users. How are they to know backup best-practices any better than you or I might know about the best-practices of a field that we haven't studied?

I mean, I don't think you need to be particularly tech-savvy to have come across the adage "never keep your eggs in one basket".

"RAID is not a backup" Please explain...

RAID shares a single property with regular backups: it lets you recover from a disk failure.

But backup is a separate copy of your data set aside for emergencies, while raid just increases the reliability of your one, in use, copy of the data.

Heres an example: You just accidentally dropped a table from your database. Can you recover it with a backup? Can you recover it with RAID?

I guess it depends on the type of data you are backing up too.

If its music/movies it's not that big an issue to get 1 corrupted file, on the other hand, corruption on critical work files could be a disaster.

I say RAID is fine for a media NAS box, but for critical business files, a more thorough backup strategy is required...

>I say RAID is fine for a media NAS box

In that case I still wouldn't call it a backup. I'd just say that the array itself was failure-resistant enough that you've chosen not to maintain a backup.

Let me Google that for you:

http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back...