2009/5/31 Andy Smith <andy@???>:
> 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
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