[tahoe-dev] Potential use for personal backup

[Saint Germain]

On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:01:58 -0600, "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn"
<zooko at zooko.com> wrote :

> 
> I hope this helps! I would very much like to read a letter from you to
> the tahoe-dev list saying whether you tried to use Tahoe-LAFS, and how
> you tried to use it, and how well it worked.
> 
> 

Wow, you guys don't do things by half...
I was not expecting such a detailed answer !
After 12 years on linux, it never ceases to amaze me how open and
friendly the open source community is.

Indeed what I had in mind was not possible with tahoe. It was mainly
because I couldn't imagine such a radical different approach.

So as I understand it makes no real sense to have a node on my home
computer and it makes no real sense either to have a single node on my
remote server. So I have indeed to participate in some kind of
VolunteerGrid2 (I don't know anyone else as curious as me).
It's quite a psychological step to "give" your backups to people you
don't know, even if it is encrypted. But I _do_ understand all the
advantages.

I suppose that it is possible that I contribute one node to
VolunteerGrid2 which can be used by my whole family and friends, each
having its private encrypted store ?

The only problem I see, is that I will be limited by the storage
capacity. The remote server I intend to rent has 2 TB and I was already
thinking that it was too small for my "group" (5-10 people). I
understant that it is better on VolunteerGrid2 if I contribute between
500 GB and 1 TB ?

As for testing, I don't have the remote server yet (I am evaluating
different backup strategy/solutions before doing the jump). So
unfortunately it would be difficult for me to test right now (I only
have my laptop which is only connected when I am using it).

Anyway I will include tahoe-LAFS in my article. A little advertisement
for volunteers/contributors cannot do you much harm. ;-)

Thanks again