[wplug] Fw: BSDCan 2005 - live network backup announcement

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Apr 28 08:38:07 EDT 2005


This is neat.  My thought is, "Why just laptops?  Why not do this with
mission-critical servers as well?

Begin forwarded message:
From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>

> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> As promised, here is an overview of the no-longer-secret new feature.
> 
> It's now on kernel trap.  http://kerneltrap.org/node/5058
> 
> *For Immediate Release*
> 
> 
> There is little more devastating than failure of your laptop's hard 
> drive - especially when working away from home base. Now imagine the 
> ability to automatically maintain complete and up-to-date duplicates 
> of laptop hard disk drives – even while working remotely around the 
> world.  
> 
> At BSDCan 2005, a new Canadian-developed technology will be 
> premiered, demonstrating the ability to maintain a “live mirror” of 
> critical data from remotely-connected computer systems. The 
> connection between the remote laptop (client) and the mirror host 
> (server) is opportunistic – making use of Internet connectivity when 
> it is available to synchronize the remote laptop and the mirror host. 
> This facility runs as an unattended background process without 
> operator intervention.  
> 
> Developed by a noted NetBSD developer, known as “der Mouse” in the 
> BSD world, the facility is being released in full source code format 
> to the public domain – without software license restrictions, and 
> freely available to all. The premier functionality released runs on 
> the NetBSD Operating System, and is file system independent. Ports to 
> other operating systems are expected to occur very quickly.  
> 
> This live mirroring facility intelligently monitors blocks of the 
> client's disk drive storage, and any blocks that have changed are 
> sent to the server across the Internet ... as soon as a connection 
> becomes available. Data transfers are encrypted, and the bandwidth 
> needed is surprisingly small – as once the facility is initialized, 
> only incremental block level differences are needed to maintain the 
> server-hosted copy. The disk mirroring facility happens automatically 
> – at airport wireless access points, client-site guest network 
> connections and anywhere your laptop can find a connection to it's 
> home base.  
> 
> On May 13-14 at the University of Ottawa will be hosting BSDCan 2005. 
> BSDCan 2005 is a technical conference for developers, users and 
> people interested in the technology behind today's network connected 
> world.  
> 
> -30-
> 
> FMI:
> 
> Live remote disk mirroring facility:
> 
> email: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
> <mailto:mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>>
> 
> 
> BSDCan 2005:
> 
> email: Dan Langille <info at bsdcan.org <mailto:info at bsdcan.org>>
> 
> web: http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
> BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
>    NEW brochure available at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/advocacy/
> 
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