[volunteergrid2-l] status report?

[Steve Dodson]

Unfortunately, my sentiments echo both Brad and Aaron.  Other than a few 
test files (long ago garbage-collected), I have not used the grid and do 
not have plans to start.  In fact, I had all but decided to take at 
least 1 server off the grid and reclaim the disk space for use with 
SpiderOak (similar privacy, just "works").  I've waffled a bit on this 
decision only because of its impact on the grid.  Of course, should 
nodes continue to exit the grid at the current rate, the grid will soon 
be compromised without my assistance.  In any case, this thread has 
helped along my decision; I will set Hiro to read-only in the next day 
or two - with plans to take it offline by the mid-February.  For the 
time being, I will keep rhp997 up as a storage node.


On 01/23/2013 11:35 PM, Brad Rupp wrote:
> Aaron summed up my feelings pretty well.  Tahoe has not worked for me at
> all.  I get everything backed up and then find that my files fail
> verification.  I too don't trust my backups with Tahoe.
>
> I have seriously considered taking my servers down too.  The only thing
> that has stopped me is that I have two servers running and don't want to
> hurt the grid by removing two servers.  But at this point, I'm not using
> Tahoe.
>
> For what it is worth, I use the Tahoe SFTP server to do my backups.
>
> Brad
>
> On 1/23/2013 8:19 PM, Aaron Drew wrote:
>> I'm sad to say I'm leaving the grid. I've run a node for almost a year
>> now but I've found I'm constantly having to constantly reinsert data to
>> the point I don't trust it with my backups.
>> It may be due to mis-configuration of a small set of participants nodes,
>> it may be bugs - I don't really know, but I've put my node into
>> read-only mode.
>>
>> I'll leave my node running another month or two and then I'll be turning
>> it off.
>>
>> Thanks for all the help over the time I've been here in setting this up
>> and keeping it running. I really do wish this project the best of luck.
>> I hope this project improves to the point of being a viable alternative
>> to specialized off-site storage but for now I don't have enough time to
>> dedicate to debugging and it's not fulfilling my immediate needs.
>> :(
>>
>> So long, and thanks for all the bits!
>>
>> On 24 January 2013 11:55, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com
>> <mailto: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? How many files and what size
>>     are they? Do you use "tahoe backup", or FUSE, or something else?
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Zooko
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