Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:45:50 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mini survey. Backup service for BSDs Message-ID: <20011104215600.O19362-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <01110403172000.01404@stinky.akitanet.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2001 19:39, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > I have been pondering the idea of making a backup service for BSDs. > > It seems there are many for windows, but few (none?) for BSDs (or that > > would work with BSDs). > > I think you might be targetting the wrong crowd at this point in time - > backup systems like you're proposing are really useful if you have a desktop > with loads of important info on, but you can't afford a DAT or similar, and > you want an off-site backup. As the current market segment FreeBSD sits in is > mostly the ISP-like data center or hard-core sysadmin crowd, most of the > current users will have a backup solution of their own. I was thinking home users and small offices. For instance what got me started thinking on this is a small office that I manage. Before I used to have a tape unit at the office. Later I configured an automatic backup to a windows machine. On 9-11 due to the terrorist attack my client lost access to his office for almost two weeks. That got me thinking on the need to have an outisde backup. > However, what I would say is that this is something that would be really cool > if FBSD started seeing more desktop market share, and I can image that it > would be a very neat system to sell FBSD to managers with. Don't see that happening soon. > I was contemplating a few months ago coming up with some sort of open, > public, distributed backup system that used something like PGP or similar > crypto across a peer-to-peer-like architecture. And make it free. What would be the benefit? > If you can work out how to make sure the data on your system is > secure, but they also manage to make a recovery when the private key > disappears with the machine that gets screwed, then you might be onto > something. ;-) That remains the most difficult element. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011104215600.O19362-100000>