Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoWouldn’t be a good solution, you’re hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.
Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one’s going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sure, but you don’t necessarily have to use it like that, you can provide your own decentralized storage using it. Put some cheap devices (old RPis w/ large SD cards) at friends’/family members’ houses and have them pin your most important stuff. If they get broken/lost, NBD, you probably have another copy somewhere else.
If a lot of your data isn’t critical and you’re willing to gamble a bit (e.g. movies or something you can re-rip), then IPFS could be a perfect fit, just like torrents are (though IPFS probably isn’t great for large media like movies, but hopefully my point makes sense).
I’m not saying it’s perfect or anything, just that it exists and is in this domain. A lot of similar projects compare themselves to IPFS, so understanding what it is and isn’t is useful what evaluating alternatives.
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)
IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it’s more stable for long-term runs nowadays).
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well, they said they wanted decentralized, and decentralization comes w/ caveats. I’m just providing options.