Hi Dipin, That was quick. At this moment in time focussing on the features / requirements will be the logical thing to do. So here goes.
This system is a peer to peer backup technology tool. How this works is, users can download this tool and install it in their system. During the installation procedure, the tool will ask the user for the "contributing share" and "backup folder". Contributing share is the amount of space, the user intends to give up so that other users can use it to backup their files. Backup folder is the folder of the user which the tool will monitor and backup the files in that folder. So basically, the tool will prepare an inventory of the files in the backup folder, encrypt it, split it and send it to various "shares" of other users where these file splits will be downloaded and stored. So at any point it time, all users will have more than one copy (in splits but can be built back) of their files residing in the peer to peer network. So when I lose my hard disk, all I have to do is, install the tool and regenerate all the files which I have backed up from the peer to peer network. Having said all this, there are a few challenges 1. Not everyone will be connected to the Internet at all times, so those computers which go down should be monitored, and immediately a copy of all the missing file spits should be spawned immediately. 2. Design on how the nodes ( participating computers which have the software installed ) will be monitoed, centrally or distributed. Centrall will be easier by distributed might be more robust The software should be capable of running in GNU/Linux, Windows and OSX, so a platform neutral technology should be adopted. These are some of the starting points. Thanks Best regards, George On 27 January 2012 11:29, Dipin Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > hi George, > > Can you give me some more details about the back up thing and > how we can do it.... I am student and i want to try it in my college.. > > Regards > Dipin Thomas > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
