[Freedombox-discuss] SugarSync & Wuala

[e.waelde]

Hello Jarno,

On 10/28/2011 03:21 PM, Jarno De Bruyn wrote:
> Though there is still another proposal, which opposes the whole idea I just
> presented (or might work in collaboration with): Could we depend on other
> Freedombox peers to hold the pieces of a distributed backup of some sort of
> our private data? How would the algorithm spread the data in such a
> "collectively distributed storage space"? What would be the limit (disk
> space, user defined ratio, ...)? What if a lot of users turn such a service
> off?

This is explicitly mentioned in one of Eben Moglens talks. I think, it is
mentioned in the one at DebConf in New York (2010).

There were indeed discussions about using freedombox in this way.
One consequence of this would be: If I would like to have 9 copies
of my important files stored (encrypted) on other freedomboxes, then
I need to provide 90% of my own diskspace for others to store their
files. Thus I can imagine this only for "important data" like keys,
contact data, maybe source code or important documentation. This is
IMHO not an option for a music/movie/image collection. Not to speak
about network bandwidth and other trivia :-)

One option could be to use tahoe-lafs, make every freedombox provide
some storage to a tahoe grid and store important files in the grid.

http://tahoe-lafs.org

tahoe has been packaged for Debian.
Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Erich