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This is not answering the question, but someone please build this for me (and hopefully a million others): Simple live off-site backup for worst-case scenario.
by cromulent 13y ago
This is not answering the question, but someone please build this for me (and hopefully a million others): Simple live off-site backup for worst-case scenario.
I buy a pair of devices (e.g. Tonidos) with attached commodity HDDs that I split with a friend. He plugs his into his network, I plug mine in.
I dump files to my local device, but they actually get buffered and then stored overnight at his place, and vice-versa. It's a remote backup storage device, not a NAS. Not for fast file serving.
If my house burns down, he hands me the HDDs and I decrypt them with my password.
If his IP changes, his device re-registers with mine somehow. Cleverness needed here, not a $10 month subscription. E.g. his IP is emailed to me, or my device, or something like that. Someone knows how to make two devices find each other over the net, I am sure.
Edit: Of course, it would be nice if it still worked if he was tech-illiterate, e.g. you could give the other one to your elderly parent or neighbor or whatever.
- mchanson 13y agoI think Crashplan's software will do this without you paying them a sub.
- cromulent 13y agoNo, it'll back up to other computers with a Crashplan account. I don't want to depend on third parties who may or may not be around, I want to give a drive to a friend and say: Plug this in.
- mchanson 13y agoDunno what to tell you. Perhaps rsync and a dynamic dns approach would be good? IF you want the machines to find each other even through IP changes you need somewhat of them rediscovering each other. Back up should be a multitiered thing so you don't mind if one goes kaput. That way you can use a 3rd party without 'depending' on them.
- throwmeaway2525 13y agoI think we're talking sneakernet here...
- deutronium 13y agoHow about http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/ http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/ where data is stored on other user's computers.
- pwg 13y agoTahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
- josephscott 13y agoSpace Monkey - http://www.spacemonkey.com/ http://www.spacemonkey.com/ Takes the distributed backup idea to the n-th degree.
- cromulent 13y agoInteresting, but "All subscriptions come with a device that is owned and managed by Space Monkey". I'd like to buy something that I own and store where I want.