2009/5/31 Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net>: > I still would like to see some sort of P2P backup thingy where it > split all your chosen files into blocks, encrypted them and then > stored copies of them "in the cloud," maintaining a certain level of > copies at all times.
I have seen several of these - if only I could remember the names of them. The idea being that you get together with either a group of friends, or just join an existing pool and you allocate a certain amount of your disk to other people's backups and it cloud-backups your data. I am not sure how many of them have existing clouds you can just use, and I have not had time to look into creating and running one of my own. The amount of space required on my disks to backup a enough friend's data to make it worthwhile means that its cheaper for me to buy disks to stick in a machine at my parent's house (as opposed to having 200G of someone elses data at my house). The problem will be that I have 200G of data to backup, but don't really want to store 200G+ of someone elses data. If I only offer 50G of my disk, and everyone else thought the same, then you would never get enough data as you lose some (probably a lot if you want access to it without requiring a large amount of the pool online) capacity trying to make it redundant. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
