[Menueditor] Project: archive.org distributed backup

[Jeremy Dunck]

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From: Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: WM2006: Distributed backup issues list
To: brewster at archive.org


Brewster,
  In the Q&A for your Wikimania presentation, the idea of distributed
backups (storage analog to  seti at home) came up.
  You were encouraging of that effort, but said you weren't clever
enough to do it.

  Could you list, or give me a link to a list, the significant
concerns or challenges in creating the Fahrenheit 451 storage system?

  Things I can think of, in no particular order:
    x bad actors lying about having a copy
    x possible high node replacement (and related bandwidth strain)
    x prioritization of backups based on storage shortage and desire
for high redundancy
    x maintenance of node/content directory
    x copyright entanglement and push for dark archive (which I agree
is a bad idea, at least for all content)
    x need for open data/format for (eventual, post-catastrophy) recovery
    x scale and testability

  What've I missed?  (Even just prioritizing the items I listed in
apparent importance would be useful.)

  Thanks,
    Jeremy