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Is there any encrypted peer backup system that could be used? Aka sharing rpi's among friends and relatives for p2p backup?
by antman 4y ago
Is there any encrypted peer backup system that could be used? Aka sharing rpi's among friends and relatives for p2p backup?
- aew4ytasghe5 4y ago
- Aachen 4y agoI would love and pay for this as well. I actually wanted to make this as a teenager but then it turns out I never finish projects. Probably also because restic or similar didn't exist yet so I started to write everything from scratch. Some software existed, like duplicity with pgp, but it had major downsides that I had ideas about how to do better. I was pretty proud of the chunking algorithm that I had adapted from rsync, and I got really good performance by using python for the logic and C for the code that actually operated on the files, but that's also where the interest started to wane. Restic with rest-server in append-only mode is a nice solution, but I'm not aware of anyone packaging this in a pre-configured image you can just flash. You'd also have to balance who backs up to whom. If that could somehow dynamically balance, that would absolutely be a dream.
- hddherman 4y agoSyncthing quite recently added support for this type of use case: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html They do warn that this feature is in beta/testing, so I wouldn't trust it with super critical data.