Hi This is a call for help for a project that I've set up after a discussion on IRC. The general idea is this - we all have data we'd rather like to have backed up off-site, and a number of options exist - dropbox, amazon s3 etc. However, most of us have some storage to spare, so how about creating a peer to peer, multiple redundancy, off-site backup system? In effect, you, as a participant, would offer up a certain amount of your own storage and bandwidth (can be during off-peak times) and get a certain amount of off-site storage, with redundancy (think RAID) for free.
Starting a project from scratch would be a tall order and certainly *way* beyond any skills I have. Luckily there have been a few attempts at this in the past (and there are a few closed source commercial implementations out there). I've started a wiki page starting to document some of the existing open source projects - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Projects/DistributedBackup It would be great if anyone with some time/knowledge/curiosity could have a look at some of the existing projects on the page and give an opinion as for suitability. Feel free to add any projects that you are aware of or come across. Cheers Dan Fish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
