On Wednesday 12 November 2008 03:42, Per Jessen wrote:
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Nonetheless, googling "peer-to-peer backup" led me to these two:
http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/85619 http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/pax/web/index.php/publication/show/id/655
I know there is some Swiss start-up out there trying to make a business out of something along those lines, but I couldn't find it.
For several months I've been using CrashPlan, which is a cross-system backup (backup to local drives is a feature that should appear by the end of this year). It can be used between any pair of systems. You pay for a license to back up one (or more, depending on version) system, but not to run a backup server (where backups are stored). I back up my primary development system to two others, one Linux and on Macintosh. All data is encrypted. No license is required to perform restores, only the password used to establish the backup in the first place. They have three functionality tiers, a consumer version with basic features, an extended version and a small-business version. I use the extended version and find it a pretty good balance of control and flexibility vs. complexity. It is available for "all three" OS platforms (it is a Java application). http://www.crashplan.com/
/Per
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