smokingwheels
My idea and project for awhile, is for a small group of computers to store important data like photo's etc in more than 1 place using various family's computers over the net, each computer stores a copy of the data and some data from other computers like having a RAID of disk's except there stored elsewhere and a complete multiple copies.
To send and recover some data it may be possible to use a private torrent on the OpenVPN network with your own private tracker, that way you can swarm you file back and are not limited to the 1 upload slot off 1 computer.
Also if one computer is switched off or down you can still send and recover data.
The Topology and the IP numbering I am having trouble with.
I know I can set client to client mode on a server but then I am joining up to servers with different IP's all running client to client mode as well. Gets confusing I have tried putting on a spread sheet till my brain hurts.
I dont think I want the setting remote random, I think I need a few TAP adapters so I can increase the bandwidth when recovering data.
I know its going to be a nightmare to manage but I will give it a go.
The reason Im doing this is I have spent 11 years writing programs in QuickBasic that run in realtime on dos, I would never be able to replace them if all my computers got stolen or my house burned down, I do not want to store them online.
Generating the configuration files as the network gets bigger and grows in complexity is no problem for my Robot typist, I put the values into a spread sheet and it gets off to work at 5000 WPM in a loop, I go and have a coffee.
