[tahoe-dev] Newbie help

[Dimitri Yioulos]

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> From: Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org>
> Subject: Re: [tahoe-dev] Newbie help
> To: tahoe-dev at allmydata.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 8:27 AM
> I don't have a lot of familiarity
> with the CLI tool, except to say that it is 
> the right tool for what you're trying to do, at least for
> now.  I'm working 
> on another backup tool which I think is much better, but
> I'm not ready to 
> recommend it to others yet, unless your interest is in
> helping me to create 
> it rather than to use it.  I'll answer a couple of the
> questions, though:
> 
> > 4. If I want to make sure that I'm storing data
> securely, do I create my
> > SSL keys beforehand and make them known to tahoe, or
> do I use "tahoe
> > create-key-generator"?
> 
> You don't need to create any keys to store your data
> securely.  Tahoe is 
> secure by default.  When you create directories in
> Tahoe, you get back a very 
> long URL that looks something like:
> 
> http://localhost:3456/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Aj2jy73j7p4wmcmpkbnezase36a%3Asr3mbzeqglcpdykyiuaufbsccqnaiipgfcdiqfkomhlndkasjgxa/
> 
> Creating the directory creates appropriate keys, and the
> keys are actually 
> embedded in the URL, which is why it's so long.  Store
> that URL somewhere 
> safe and your data is secure.
> 
> > 5. I should be able to cron the CLI command (question
> 2) to create a backup
> > schedule, correct?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>     Shawn.
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Thank you, Shawn.  This answers many of the question I just asked about  again.  I truly appreciate everyone's patience and assistance!