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Idea: An open source peer-to-peer backup service where data is encrypted and backed up in pieces across countless systems around the globe. No one person had yo

by 83457 10y ago

Idea: An open source peer-to-peer backup service where data is encrypted and backed up in pieces across countless systems around the globe. No one person had your data but in some way it would be guaranteed your data would always be available. Everyone who uses the backup service would be required to also accept data pieces for backup.

dublinben 10y ago
That sounds just like Freenet or IPFS.
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tambourine_man 10y ago
That is the dream yes. Maybe with: https://ipfs.io https://ipfs.io
lb1lf 10y ago
It is called BitTorrent. Generate the backup file as described in the parent article, give it a saucy name involving a (female) celebrity and let it out into the wild. As disk space is effectively free and people tend to hoard files, I suspect you'd have no problems recovering your file a year or two down the line. (I tried this way back when using WinMX (anyone remember THAT?) to see whether it would work. It did.) We dubbed it 'hardcore backups.'
- lozf 10y ago
  You could even throw a little steganography in to the mix, so those who check for the content they want, but pay little attention to file size continue to participate in storing your data!
  - 83457 10y ago
    Was thinking the exact same thing. Win-Win
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problems 10y ago
IPFS, Freenet, Zeronet... maybe more significantly Maidsafe is trying to do this with a cryptocurrency so you get paid a bit to store files. It's a quite clever idea.
HuggableSquare 10y ago
There was a paid version of something like this called Digital Lifeboat. IIRC it ran on top of the BitTorrent protocol, and users would store some pieces of other users backups. It didn't really catch on and shutdown a few years ago.
madjam002 10y ago
There was something like this for years called Symform but they shut down recently: http://www.backupreview.com/symform-to-discontinue-peer-to-peer-cloud-storage-service/ http://www.backupreview.com/symform-to-discontinue-peer-to-p... I guess this was more of a commercial solution though.
coolspot 10y ago
Etherium developers working on Swarm[1][2] which is p2p storage with incentive and smart contracts! [1] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilo... [2] https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm

by 83457 10y ago

dublinben 10y ago

That sounds just like Freenet or IPFS.

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tambourine_man 10y ago

That is the dream yes. Maybe with: https://ipfs.io https://ipfs.io

lb1lf 10y ago

It is called BitTorrent. Generate the backup file as described in the parent article, give it a saucy name involving a (female) celebrity and let it out into the wild. As disk space is effectively free and people tend to hoard files, I suspect you'd have no problems recovering your file a year or two down the line. (I tried this way back when using WinMX (anyone remember THAT?) to see whether it would work. It did.) We dubbed it 'hardcore backups.'

lozf 10y ago
You could even throw a little steganography in to the mix, so those who check for the content they want, but pay little attention to file size continue to participate in storing your data!
- 83457 10y ago
  Was thinking the exact same thing. Win-Win
- deleted 10y ago
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problems 10y ago

IPFS, Freenet, Zeronet... maybe more significantly Maidsafe is trying to do this with a cryptocurrency so you get paid a bit to store files. It's a quite clever idea.

HuggableSquare 10y ago

There was a paid version of something like this called Digital Lifeboat. IIRC it ran on top of the BitTorrent protocol, and users would store some pieces of other users backups. It didn't really catch on and shutdown a few years ago.

madjam002 10y ago

There was something like this for years called Symform but they shut down recently: http://www.backupreview.com/symform-to-discontinue-peer-to-peer-cloud-storage-service/ http://www.backupreview.com/symform-to-discontinue-peer-to-p... I guess this was more of a commercial solution though.

coolspot 10y ago

Etherium developers working on Swarm[1][2] which is p2p storage with incentive and smart contracts! [1] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm/ https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilo... [2] https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm