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

[Doug Green]

Sounds very cool- but why not just back up your data? Does making a mirrored
copy of a non-open source application violate copyright laws?


On 4/28/05 8:38 AM, "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> 
> 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 ³live mirror² 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 ³der Mouse² 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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