On 31/05/09 19:09, Anton Piatek wrote:
> 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).
>
>
Damian Brasher has started a project to try and do this type of thing. This is the information from his signature.
WWW
http://www.diaser.org.uk - working together to make long term digital
archives more accessible
RSS
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=258272
HTH
--
Graeme Hilton
