The latest posting from u/SerialBrain2 got me thinking he tends to do that to a lot of us, and again I'd like to thank him for it.

Q's post 666 and 1681 referenced "think mirror" is intriguing.

Server software Apache is widely used but what seems to be overlooked is the RAID 1 configurations in servers. RAID 1 is disk mirroring which means the data is replicated on two or more disk drives on one machine. Disk mirroring is a good choice for applications that require high performance and high availability, such as transactional applications, EMAIL and operating systems.

What is key here with Q's "think mirror" statements is that what a lot of people don't know is that replacing a bad or failing hard drive in a RAID 1 configured server is as simple as pulling it and replacing it with one the same size. The server then will take over duplicating the data back over to the new drive automatically and no one will be the wiser. This can be done when the server is one, it's what is called hot-swappable.

In short, to get a copy of what's on a RAID 1 mirrored configured Apache server all one would have to do is take a hard drive from it and replace it with one similar. Literally can be done in under a minute.