wiki:TipsTricks

Version 14 (modified by zooko, at 2012-10-25T02:56:42Z) (diff)

add BRIC

Tahoe-LAFS Tips & Tricks

using a set of consumer cloud storage services as the backends

There are two write-ups of how to do this:

git-annex can use Tahoe-LAFS as a backend

git-annex special remotes

Back caps/URIs up

Tahoe-LAFS users can encrypt their caps (new text file or ~/.tahoe/private/aliases) and upload it to Google Docs, which now accepts arbitrary file types.

Publish iCal calendars over Tahoe-LAFS

Instructions

Automatic Tahoe-LAFS file repair

Instructions

Host Bazaar repositories

Support for Tahoe-LAFS's FTP server has been merged into Bzr's mainline (#294709). It may be preferable to use SFTP, though.

Perforce backend storage

Instructions

Running with supervisord

The only trick with supervisord is to make tahoe run as a single foreground process so it can be watched and killed correctly. Use a command like "bin/tahoe run -C /path/to/tahoe/home".

Using Pagekite to run storage nodes behind a NAT

Instructions

Pagekite is an alternative to reverse-tunneling, especially if you don't have your own proxy and can't forward ports through your NAT. It's also a good way to set up multiple hostnames, any one of which can be used to access your node if the others go down.

Mount tahoe-lafs with pyfilesystem and Dokan on Windows XP

pyFilesystem

Run tahoe-lafs with AppArmor LSM on linux

apparmor