What's in it for us?<div><br></div><div>( joke )</div><div><br></div><div>Why not just use a RAID setup? To</div><div>get it off premises? How much data</div><div>are "we" talking about?</div><div><br></div>
<div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've been thinking about a recurring issue...Namely that none of RCo's<br>
remote backup targets are very good. My home system has a problem<br>
remaining alive for any extended duration, and I don't have any other<br>
good prospective places to I can trust to send the data. (No offense<br>
to anyone who's offered, but it's hard for me to totally trust someone<br>
I've never met in person.*)<br>
<br>
I may have hit on a novel solution, but I want to run it past a bunch<br>
of people (namely, you), before I do something this crazy.<br>
<br>
Step 1: Take backup on server<br>
Step 2: Compress backup to tarball.<br>
Step 3: Encrypt tarball using GPG and a long, long public key.<br>
Step 4: Build a torrent.<br>
Step 5: Add torrent to RSS feed.<br>
Step 6: Anyone who wants to help can point their torrent client at the<br>
RSS feed. Data's encrypted, so I don't have to worry. With enough<br>
seeder boxes out there, there can be several full copies out there.<br>
<br>
Bonus: Server data migration happens much, much faster. :)<br>
<br>
Steps 2 and 3 can be munched a bit by nesting the encryption in the<br>
tarball, using separate keys for each subdirectory, or even splitting<br>
a .tar.lzma, separately encrypting each chunk with a unique key,<br>
tarring that and using another key for encrypting that final tarball.<br>
<br>
* Yes, this is me we're talking about, and I realize the irony.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thoughts?<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
:wq<br>
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