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[Jim Lynch]

Pat Regan wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 05:42 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>   
>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>     
>>> Fantastic idea! Distributed, redundant, encrypted cloud storage. I've 
>>> seen some filesystems designed for this but I have not seen the 
>>> encrypted part included.
>>>
>>>       
>> With the price of USB drives what they are it's cheap to provide way 
>> more space than you could realistically use over a relatively slow 
>> internet connection.   That's  only if you don't have extra internal space.
>>     
>
> If there is a fire, or maybe a burglary, I may very well lose my
> original and my backup USB drive.  You can certainly store your backup
> somewhere offsite, but there is some actual physical effort involved in
> that.
>   
What apparently I failed to communicate was that I'm fully in support of 
the concept of cloud management and just pointed out that if there are 
some that couldn't participate due to a lack of free space, that an 
attached USB device is both inexpensive and would do nicely for that 
purpose.

Jim.