[volunteergrid2-l] status report?

[Pascal Bach]

I agree with you. I played around some time ago but never seriously used
it. It did seem to unreliable for backup. And the duplicity backend I never
really got to work.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Steve Dodson <steve.dodson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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