[tahoe-dev] Potential use for personal backup

[Saint Germain]

On 22 May 2012 19:11, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Saint Germain <saintger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The use case was to have a service similar to Dropbox (synchronisation
>> and versioning) which doesn't require any action from the client (in
>> my case the home computer).
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding (very possible), I don't think Tahoe gives you
> this.
>

I also think so but I may also ahve misunderstood.

>>
>> Using tahoe, I have synchronisation between my remote server and the
>> home computer.
>
>
> You do?  How are you thinking this is accomplished?  Are you talking about
> using a FUSE file system on one side or the other (on the remote server, I
> assume, since it sounds like you're talking about pushing files from the
> remote server to the home computer, which is the reverse of what most people
> want to do) and then setting up something to automatically copy relevant
> files into that directory?
>

Well I will need to install and use tahoe to be absolutely sure.
I wanted to have one node on my remote server and one node on my home
computer. The gateway being on the remote server.
On my home computer I will access the node with FUSE.

Now if I add a file on my home node, normally (if I understand
correctly tahoe) it will be also stored on the remote node.
So that's why I say that I have "synchronisation".

After that the only remaining issue for me is to save to another media
from time to time (if I don't trust tahoe for instance).
I can do it from my home node (burn home node content to a DVD) or I
can do it from the remote node (copy remote note content to a separate
disk).
It is just that I was hoping to use tahoe backup for this last step,
but it seems that the drawbacks may not be acceptable for my use case
(but perfect for other use cases of course).

Do you think I have understood correctly ?