[Freedombox-discuss] Leaving the (proprietary) cloud - my roadmap for FB

[Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

>
>  With some minor tweaks I've managed to get Dirvish to do fully automated,
>>> opportunistic backups of the family's computers (laptops etc.) that come and
>>> go from my home network, and then I grant access to the backup snapshots
>>> using an SSL+password-protected, publicly visible HTTP server.  This gives
>>> us both backups and access to all our files, all the time, from anywhere.
>>>
>>> I've also worked on auto-extracting and sorting media (mp3s etc) from the
>>> backups (using hard-links to save space, like Dirvish), allowing me to build
>>> a central media library without any manual work: just copy files to my
>>> laptop, let them sit for a backup cycle or two and then delete them. :-)
>>>
>>
> Please share the details.


Here is a description of my first system like this, it's mostly still valid:
http://bre.klaki.net/programs/xbox-dirvish/

-- 
Bjarni R. Einarsson
Founder, CEO and janitor of the Beanstalks Project.

http://beanstalks-project.net/  ~  http://bre.klaki.net/
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