[wplug] Online Backup

[Bill Moran]

Michael Skowvron <michaels at penguincentral.org> wrote:
>
> Would anyone be interested in participating in a shared storage grid?
> 
> By using software from Cleversafe (http://cleversafe.org/), a group of 
> us could setup a large, shared pool of storage. The files that are 
> copied into the pool are split up and distributed across all the nodes 
> in the pool. The grid can survive the loss of several nodes and still 
> reconstruct the data.
> 
> I think it would be an interesting project to experiment with. But I 
> don't think it can be done with fewer than 5 or 6 participants and 11 
> would be best. The participants would have to agree to contribute a 
> similar amount of storage to the grid and be willing to stay connected 
> to the grid continuously.

I have the capacity and I would be interested.  There are two things
holding me back:
1) I can find no information about how the system encrypts my data
   or otherwise ensures my privacy.
2) There's no packages for FreeBSD.  They provide source, so it's
   entirely possible that I could put together a port, but it's not
   guaranteed.

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Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com