[nycbug-talk] live network backup

[Dan Langille]

For those unaware...

Original article at http://kerneltrap.org/node/5058

Also, we need people to post this to slashdot, and the usual sites.

Thanks.

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From:           	"Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
To:             	announce at lists.bsdcan.org
Date sent:      	Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:26:57 -0400
Subject:        	BSDCan 2005 - live network backup announcement


Hello folks,

As promised, here is an overview of the no-longer-secret new feature.

It's now on kernel trap.  http://kerneltrap.org/node/5058

*For Immediate Release*


There is little more devastating than failure of your laptop's hard
drive - especially when working away from home base. Now imagine the
ability to automatically maintain complete and up-to-date duplicates
of laptop hard disk drives ? even while working remotely around the
world.  

At BSDCan 2005, a new Canadian-developed technology will be 
premiered, demonstrating the ability to maintain a ?live mirror? of
critical data from remotely-connected computer systems. The 
connection
between the remote laptop (client) and the mirror host (server) is
opportunistic ? making use of Internet connectivity when it is
available to synchronize the remote laptop and the mirror host. This
facility runs as an unattended background process without operator
intervention.  

Developed by a noted NetBSD developer, known as ?der Mouse? in the 
BSD
world, the facility is being released in full source code format to
the public domain ? without software license restrictions, and freely
available to all. The premier functionality released runs on the
NetBSD Operating System, and is file system independent. Ports to
other operating systems are expected to occur very quickly.  

This live mirroring facility intelligently monitors blocks of the
client's disk drive storage, and any blocks that have changed are 
sent
to the server across the Internet ... as soon as a connection becomes
available. Data transfers are encrypted, and the bandwidth needed is
surprisingly small ? as once the facility is initialized, only
incremental block level differences are needed to maintain the
server-hosted copy. The disk mirroring facility happens automatically
? at airport wireless access points, client-site guest network
connections and anywhere your laptop can find a connection to it's
home base.  

On May 13-14 at the University of Ottawa will be hosting BSDCan 2005.
BSDCan 2005 is a technical conference for developers, users and 
people
interested in the technology behind today's network connected world.  


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FMI:

Live remote disk mirroring facility:

email: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
<mailto:mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>>


BSDCan 2005:

email: Dan Langille <info at bsdcan.org <mailto:info at bsdcan.org>>

web: http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/



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