[Gllug] Is there any demand for rsync based offsite backup?

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, M.Blackmore wrote:

> But how could one actually make a Miasma backup system actually work, a
> la freenetty sort of way? I suspect for most people the nightly backup
> will be small - few megabytes - but the overall data would end up being
> stonking, hundreds of gbs, probably teras. How would a system keep track
> of this all, scattered over tens of thousands of storage sites,
> humongously redundant so that, say, Denmark disappears under the North
> Sea in a cataclysm along with its 10 million Miasma netted computers and
> no one notices any data loss 'cos there isn't any.

If you see that great a loss of data I suspect no distributed scheme is 
going to be completely unaffected.

The thing about FreeNet is that a lot of the questions you raise have 
already been mostly solved.

The big downside to FreeNet in particular is that it is already contains 
the kind of data that will get you arrested and prosecuted for kiddie pron 
if you run it and get caught with it on your PC.

I've been looking into properly distributed data with decent indexing for 
a while now and it's not fast - in fact everything I've seen trying to do 
this so far has been slower than I think most users would consider 
reasonable. That's one of the reasons my distributed contact system idea 
never went anywhere.

> 'scuse me, any one hear a phone ringing??
> 
> (hands up those old enough to get that reference, eh?)

/me raises hand.

Jason
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