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Cringely's P2P Backup Idea

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 12, 2004 @05:57AM from the hey-baby-want-some-backup dept.

gewg_ writes "If Napster and Bit Torrent had a baby, would it Baxter? As a follow-on to Cringely's last column where he talked about having a backup strategy in the wake of Hurricane Frances, this week he proposes a distributed RAID notion as a solution."

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Queue Linus Quote in..... by shoemakc · 2004-09-12 06:00 · Score: 1, Funny

Queue Linus quote in 3....2....1....

Ah, there it is :-)

-Chris

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1. Re:Queue Linus Quote in..... by SirTalon42 · 2004-09-12 10:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  What if the martians invade the moon? WHERES YOUR DATA NOW! PUNK!
What an awesome idea by Faust7 · 2004-09-12 06:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Depending on exactly what you have stored, millions of people may want to help you backup as soon as possible.

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p2p backup by khrtt · 2004-09-12 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I think this is old news. Some people have been backing up the source code for viruses that they wrote on Kazaa for months now.
Re:No thanks by Ageless · 2004-09-12 06:37 · Score: 2, Funny

Or better yet, read the article which says the system would do exactly that!