[ILUG] p2p Decentralised Backup

Renato Miceli renatomiceli at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 12:16:19 IST 2012


Hi Michael,

I recommend the Beehive File System:
http://www.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/beefs

It is a distributed file system that harnesses the free disk space on
machines (ideally in a LAN) to build a large, scalable, reliable and
transparent (POSIX-compliant) storage infrastructure. Plus it can be used
to back files up across different machines in the network (full and
differential backups, scheduled backup, variable no. of replicas, affinity,
etc).

Cheers,
Renato


2012/7/18 Michael Jonker <michael at openpoint.ie>

> I am researching strategies for decentralised backup solutions which are
> economical, scalable, suitable for SMB's and Linux compatible. Ideally
> these should also be FOSS.
>
> So far the only mature looking service I have found is Symform <
> http://www.symform.com/>, but this is proprietary, has no Linux client
> and IMO expensive if you are giving back equal/more disk space.
> http://www.symform.com/
>
> I have also found these (not mature) options:
> Infinit:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Infinit<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinit>
> http://www.infinit.io/
>
> Backupp2p:
> http://backupp2p.pbworks.com/**w/page/11416763/FrontPage<http://backupp2p.pbworks.com/w/page/11416763/FrontPage>
>
> Does anybody have insight, advice, suggestions regarding distributed p2p
> backup solutions?
> I find the concept intriguing and progressive when compared to big data
> warehouses.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Jonker
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