[Tfug] Dispersed Storage / Distributed backups

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 21 Aug 2006 at 13:10, Chad Woolley  wrote:

> If it's an old box sitting in someone's garage, I personally wouldn't
> want to depend on it for backup - even if it's redundant on eleven
> other boxes in other people's garages.
> 
> If it were hosted at a colo, that would be a different story, but
> that's not the point of this.  Is it?
> 
> -- Chad
> 
> On 8/21/06, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> > At 11:03 AM 8/21/2006 -0700, Angus wrote:
> > >'Twould be interesting to set one of these up here in Tucson for mutual
> > >backup.  I have an unused IP address for setting up a server ...
> >
> > I assume this is a troll for hardware???  What sort of hardware would make
> > sense for this - could old castoffs be used?

No, it wasn't a troll for hardware.  It was a troll for folks that might be 
interested in forming a backup-coop.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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