[ale] on-line storage (was: Recommendation for off-line storage?)

[Robert Story]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:13:32 -0400 Greg wrote:
GF> > There are also some online pay services as well. There's also on that
GF> > works on a barter system: you give them space on your system to store
GF> > (fragments of) other peoples stuff, and you get distributed online space
GF> > in return. I think it was 10:1, so you'd need 120GB of free local space
GF> > to get your 12GB stored free.
GF> 
GF> rdiff-backup (GPL code) uses rsync/ssh type technologies to do remote
GF> backups and reduce that 10:1 significantly.

That 10:1 ratio was for the online pay service - you give them 10GB of space
on your machine, and they give you 1 GB of space in their online distributed
network for free.

If you went the friends/family route, then rdiff-backup would be a step above
a simple rsync cron job...