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Ask Usenet: Distributed Online Storage For Families?

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> 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!

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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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