[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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Bill Moran
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