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Cringely's P2P Backup Idea

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Queue Linus Quote in..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case they missed it.

    "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."