On Apr 03, 2002 22:20 +0200, Pieter De Wit wrote: > What the project is about, is to allow users to make off-site backups of > there systems (the idea started before I knew Linux :( ) and then restore > it. The problem with some other project is that these option are over HTTP > and not secure not to mention speed... The other problem is space, What do > you do when a users home dir. gets to more then your free space. Lets say a > corporate signs up 500 gig of disk space. There is no way that you can mount > that under one system. I have updated my docs on my site, the only problem > is that fingers type slower than the mind can think. Because I dev. the > system myself, I can port "user-space" apps (like the backup thing) to > Windows,Mac and whatever OS. I havn't looked at your site yet, but the > problem is Inter-OS-connection with most Network FSes, sure, you can mount > the FS under Linux and then Export it with SAMBA or NFS, but that is a pain > if you wanted to do this over the net. NFS might work, but I havn't found a > nice/stable NFS client for Windows.... If you want to do distributed replication, I would suggest looking at InterMezzo (another project that the company I work for has developed). It allows data replication over HTTP (or other transport protocols) and also can use ext3 as the underlying filesystem storage. See the site http://www.inter-mezzo.org. It is also GPL software. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
