[clug] bittorrent and friends..

[CK Raju .]

One could also look at jigdo for managing backups.
CK Raju


--- On Sun, 31/8/08, Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> wrote:

> From: Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net>
> Subject: Re: [clug] bittorrent and friends..
> To: "CLUG List" <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Sunday, 31 August, 2008, 9:22 AM
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> Andrew Janke wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | Just wondering if anyone else out there has done this
> yet.
> |
> | A bunch of us all want to backup stuff.  We all have a
> fair amount of
> | free quota each month, we all have a couple of hundred GB
> or so spare.
> |
> | So of course, why not play google and back up everything
> to each
> | other, and use something like bittorrent to share the
> data about, then
> | amongst the 7 or so of us things will always remain
> "synched".
> |
> | Of course then we can add in encryption (at the other
> site) in time
> | but for now we are interested in just getting it going.
> |
> | Thoughts?  anyone set up a "private" torrent
> tracker before and have a
> | handy PHP script or something to share?
> 
> I think perhaps a better solution is to set up a
> distributed file system or
> distributed data store (see the Wikipedia entries for those
> two) that people
> can join on invitation.  The file system would be set so
> that copies exist on
> enough backup machines and you would simply write copies of
> your data to it.
> If you don't trust the people to not read your files,
> encrypt your backups.
> 
> The selection of what file system and how many backups is
> 'enough' are topics
> for considerable debate.  My research so far has looked at
> Coda, Ceph, GFS,
> Lustre, OneFS, and PVFS, all of which aren't really
> suitable, as they're
> designed for clustered file systems where the minimum
> interconnect is a LAN.
> It might be an interesting experiment to see if we can set
> it up over ADSL in
> Canberra, but it could also be annoyingly painful.
> 
> I've also looked at Wuala but while it's got the
> capability of private,
> encrypted storage and does the whole 'cloud
> storage' thing, I don't see that
> as a good alternative to a couple of people wanting to have
> a private backup
> system.
> 
> More research required.  Anyone got a spare CompSci grad
> student?
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Paul
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