2 Feb
2009
2 Feb
'09
7:42 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Are you just sending modified data each time? I suspect that isn't actually
too bad - my "too slow" comment was more a reflection on how awful sending the
initial xGB of data would be, and that'd put a lot of people off. (hmm,
service where you could mail in a hard disk with the initial data set on,
maybe? :-)
Lots of us
already back up across a LAN to a machine (regardless of
the storage technology behind the scenes), so it's not a big leap to
do that to some off-site server; it's just that the upstream data
rates from the home aren't really *quite* there yet.
I doubt that, actually; I back up live to a big backup disk at home,
and I have that disk backed up live over my DSL line. And mine is
about as slow as consumer DSL gets; we switched me from RADSL to MVL
because it performs better on almost-too-long copper, and even that
tops out at about 0.4Mbps (RADSL was dropping out entirely at times and
not syncing above about 512kbps at all). I
suspect that what's actually lacking is the software for it in a form
easy enough to drop in that the masses can use it.
It'd be kind of fun to cook something up. The majority of home users probably
just have multiple GB of music and images which don't ever really change
anyway (and any protocol could even include stuff like "this file was moved"
just to speed that particular case up a bit).
But yeah, "drop in" is a bit difficult, at least if you want to support
Windows/OSX/Linux/*BSD...
cheers
J.