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Local copies do not protect against site outages.

If you have a flood in your server room RAID doesn’t help.

Google File System (GFS), used throughout Google until about a year ago, takes the concept of RAID up a notch. Using coding techniques to write to multiple datacenters in different cities at once, so you only need N-1 fragments to reconstruct the data. So with three datacenters once can die and you still have the data available.