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Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems?

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-raid-to-bind-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many cloud systems are available on the market like: dropbox, google, sugar sync, or your local internet provider, that offer some free gigabytes of storage. Is there anything out there which can combine the storage into one usable folder (preferably linux mountable) and encrypt the data stored in the cloud? The basic idea would be to create one file per cloud used as a block device. Then combine all of them using a software raid (redundancy etc) with cryptFS on top. Have you heard of anything which can do that or what can be used to build upon?"

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  1. Why do this ? by Alain+Williams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He has not said why he wants to do this, ie what problem he is trying to solve. Depending on the question the answer may be different. Does he want a cloud because:

    * data must be available from many places - ie over the Internet ?

    * data is to be safe from one place (ie home/office machine) blowing up and losing everything ?

    * fast access is needed from many places at once ?

    Please first answer these questions so that we may provide you with what you need rather than random solutions that may not be what you need.