[volunteergrid2-l] status report?

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com>wrote:

> Folks:
>
> How is the volunteergrid2 working for you all? Does anyone use it to
> backup files, and if so, is it reliable?


I have tried to use VG2 to back up files, but it has never worked for me. I
tried "tahoe backup", but it hung or crashed with unhappiness errors, even
when there were enough available servers to make it "happy". I also tried
another "tahoe ..." command that was supposed to recursively copy a
directory into the grid, but that hung too. Eventually I wrote my own shell
script that would do the directory recursion and call a "tahoe cp" on each
file, but it didn't work because individual "tahoe cp" commands would hang
or crash. All in all, I have not been able to complete an initial backup.


> How many files and what size
> are they?


It's a directory on my server produced by duplicity running on my laptop.
Files are mostly around 26MB, and there are 1452 of them.


> Do you use "tahoe backup", or FUSE, or something else?
> Thanks!
>

No, thank you! I hope that someday I will be able to use tahoe for its
intended purpose, but for now I am happy to contribute storage capacity to
a community of people interested in playing around and working out bugs.

Good luck,
Eric
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