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Is a FOSS decentralized peer-supported backup service feasible? (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 2 months ago by nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf to c/opensource@programming.dev

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While Apple has iCloud and M$ has OneDrive, both offering 5 free GB of storage, most Free backup services written for Linux are focusing on saving your data to your own hard drive lying next to your computer. That is troublesome and not the most reliable as in case of a house fire or a flood it will burn or drown along with the machine. Some offer an option to buy some storage from a third-party provider like Amazon, but that's again non-open and troublesome.

Is a free&Free peer-supported service possible? Where, similar to torrent tech and PeerTube, you allocate some storage on your PC to someone's backups, and can publish your data on the network in return, so that data would be distributed between computers and could be requested on demand?

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[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, the internet runs on encryption. If the algorithm behind HTTPS is cracked, no conventional data storage service is safe. Overall I'm quite confident modern post-quantum encryption is quite secure for the task.

As for the legal staff, well, PeerTube works the same by sending arbitrary content through your device and no one got in trouble.