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[Jim Lynch]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> We should, collectively, run an ALE distributed encrypted archive cluster.
>>     
>
> That would be cool.
>
> I currently pay dreamhost a monthly fee to maintain a backup of 400GB or so.
>
> The cost is not bad, but I always worry that if I really need to
> restore it, it will take weeks to get my data back.  Having it local
> (metro Atlanta I assume) so I could somehow get physical access and
> download via USB (or better yet, eSata) would be comforting.
>   
I sort of got the idea he meant shared storage on all our systems, not a 
separate facility.  A la bittorrent, kinda.  I have a few spare Gb as do 
others so I'll store some of my data on yours and you can store some of 
your data on mine, etc.

Jim.