Re: [tahoe-dev] FAQ? - What happens if I loose the Tahoe-LAFS gateway machine? production ready?

2011-01-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian Warner war...@lothar.com writes: What matters most is the filecap, dircap, or rootcap under which you stored your data. You must retain access to that string. Nit: you really need the introducer furl. But all the storage servers should have it, so that's less scary than your rootcap.

Re: [tahoe-dev] FAQ? - What happens if I loose the Tahoe-LAFS gateway machine? production ready?

2011-01-06 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello Brian, The grid, and the rootcap, are all that you need to retrieve the data. Great! The only critical piece is the rootcap. Perfect fitting for my plan. greetings Carsten ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org

[tahoe-dev] FAQ? - What happens if I loose the Tahoe-LAFS gateway machine? production ready?

2011-01-05 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello, maybe it's a FAQ but I didn't find an answer on the website. What happens if I loose the gateway? Did the informations on the storage servers are sufficent to rebuild the hole system? Is the index etc. stored in a distributed way? If not: what files of the gateway have to be backuped?

Re: [tahoe-dev] FAQ? - What happens if I loose the Tahoe-LAFS gateway machine? production ready?

2011-01-05 Thread Shawn Willden
2011/1/5 Carsten Krüger c.krue...@gmx.org Hello Brian, The gateway is merely that: a gateway between your HTTP-speaking client and the Tahoe storage grid. Nothing on the gateway needs to be backed-up or preserved. What matters most is the filecap, dircap, or rootcap under which you

Re: [tahoe-dev] FAQ? - What happens if I loose the Tahoe-LAFS gateway machine? production ready?

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Warner
On 1/5/11 2:26 PM, Carsten Krüger wrote: What matters most is the filecap, dircap, or rootcap under which you stored your data. You must retain access to that string. This is only a small amount of data that never changes? Right. Think of it like a URL that points to a whole site full of