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DIBS - Backup system

DIBS is a backup system that protects your data by giving your files to peers (and in return, you store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers. This solves the problem of mirroring your data by adding more disks to your own computer only ot have a fire, flood, power surge, etc. wiping out your local data center.

Note that DIBS is a backup system, *not* a file sharing system like Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, etc. In fact, DIBS encrypts all data transmissions so that the peers you trade files with can not access your data.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs
Source tarball http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/dibs-0.91.tar.gz
Version 0.91 (beta) released on 2004-07-12
Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/dibs-faq.html; User guide available in HTML format from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/dibs.html
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Help List<emin@allegro.mit.edu>
Developer List<emin@allegro.mit.edu>
Bug List<emin@allegro.mit.edu>

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-07-25
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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