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Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families?

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Oregonian Haruspex wrote:

>> Some Poor Slashdot User Soon to be Betafied writes:
>> "What options are available for distributed storage for families? My
>> two brothers, my daughter and her husband, and his mother all have
>> homes in various parts of the country. We use various cloud storage
>> providers to keep our shared data. This has numerous limitations and
>> we are starting to think maybe we can do it better ourselves. We all
>> have decent Internet connections, are all somewhat tech savvy, and
>> think that by leveraging the Internet we can maybe provide for our
>> needs better and at lower cost by buying some hardware and doing it
>> ourselves. How would you go about implementing such a
>> family-oriented, distributed cloud platform? What hardware? What
>> applications, beyond simply the preservation and sharing of family
>> data, (grandkids' photos, home videos, and more) would be good to
>> leverage such a platform? Security Cameras? HTPC? VoIP? Home
>> Automation? Primary requirements are Cheap, Secure, Reliable."
> 
> I reposted this little doodle from the old Slashdot because it's
> actually a pretty good question.  People are generating lots of
> digital data these days and it seems that they would like to figure
> out ways to keep it around without relying on some external service.
> 
> Of course a person can get a server at a colo facility, or obviously
> use a cloud storage provider, but the question is about doing it
> yourself.
> 
> For me the first thing that springs to mind, is to use Tahoe LAFS
> ("https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs").  It's designed from the
> ground up for just this kind of scenario and works quite well.  Other
> solutions can be cobbled together with git, rsync, and so on.  Even
> using FTP and pulling daily mirrors could be sufficient for many
> people, but Tahoe has a huge advantage over any of these systems.
> 
> His question about other services beyond storage is interesting too,
> but I think that a VPN could fulfill most of his needs there and it
> would be simple to maintain.
> 
> Thanks to Slashdot for inspiring this post, and thanks to Beta for
> encouraging me to post the story here!

I run an OwnCloud server from my house so me and a few friends can share 
large files without having to go through a public filesharing site. I've 
had a good experience with that, and since you run the server you can do 
whatever you like with it. For example, we also run an imageboard for 
communication outside of Facebook and such.

If you run a server from a residential connection the bottleneck is 
always going to be your upload speed. You could get real hosting if you 
don't like that, but you can't beat a spare box in a closet running 
OwnCloud for free.

http://owncloud.org/features/

-- 
Fuck Beta

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Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 15:07 -0800
  Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:17 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 12:17 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 17:13 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-09 21:17 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 09:45 -0500
          Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 08:08 -0800
          Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-11 04:01 +0000
            Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 06:31 -0800
              Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-12 03:52 +0000
                Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? Symbiote <usenet@symbiote.eu> - 2014-02-19 19:58 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? shvelven <shvelven@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 09:53 -0500
  Re: Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families? vincemulhollon@gmail.com - 2014-02-10 05:32 -0800

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