Subj : Re: FInally hit a wall...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : deon
Date : Fri Dec 20 2024 15:40:53

  Re: Re: FInally hit a wall...
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to paulie420 on Thu Dec 19 2024 09:15 am

Howdy,

 >  If you want to rent out space on your NAS, I might have a business
 >  model for you.  :) I'm looking into AT&T fiber, and once I'm off of
 >  Comcast with their bandwidth caps, am looking at backing up to the
 >  cloud somewhere as another layer of protection. I've only got around
 >  3TB I'm backing up.

Have you heard of tahoe-lafs?

I played with it a few years ago - and its design is perfect for this.

It's effectively raid (or erasure coding) across unreliable targets. IE: Everybody provides capacity, and data stored is split, encrypted and erasure coded across everybody's drives (so no single person has a full file - and the data is encrypted anyway).

If a node goes down, your data is still recoverable from other targets - upto the parity setting. IE: If you set parity to 3, then 3 systems can go offline and your data is still accessible.

The trouble I had with it, is health check and repair, there didnt seem to be an easy way to manage, validate and repair as a hosting "node". IE: If I had two drives, one failed and I replaced it with a new drive, I couldnt recover all the "chunks" for data hosted there - only the data owner could.

Development was slow as well...


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