[Freedombox-discuss] s3ql - idea for backup between friends

Sat Mar 22 14:37:37 UTC 2014

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

> Hi.  Did any of you check out s3ql, a fuse file system with cloud
> backends, ...

> It occured to me that it each freedombox privide a storage API (say
> OpenStack), friends can grant access to each others storage API and
> mount a backup disk locally with encryption, allowing files to be
> backed up on each others freedombox while making sure the files are
> only accesible for those with the encryption key.

It seems to me the obvious file system for that sort of thing would
be Tahoe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Least-Authority_Filesystem