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Re: [SAGE] Long lived, cheap data storage



On Oct 07, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
| The problem here, is do you really want to keep all of your eggs in  
| one basket? What happens in 3 years when Amazon realizes that they're  
| not a storage company and shuts down EC2? Or when EC2 has an outage  
| that causes data loss (like the one last weekend), and you're SOL  
| because Amazon was never a storage company, and refused to provide an  
| SLA?

Right, there ought to be more interesting peer-to-peer type
solutions here.  i remember looking at CrashPlan a while back.
While i liked the idea, i was disappointed by the
implementation (not to mention it's Windows only).