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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:10:45AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > You want to make my day? Come up with a way that Joe Sixpack can *back up* > that 500 gigabyte hard drive that's in a $600 computer (in other words, if > that backup scheme costs Joe much more than $50, *it wont happen*). Having ratio issues? Offer a 'free' backup client so your customers can upload their bits somewhere else. If the disk is cheap enough and you come up with a backend system to distribute it appropriately this could easily become something valuable to offer to consumers. And if you're a network that pushes traffic in one way, a chance to 'even' it out. Good luck due to the lower upload speeds (how long to rsync that new 2G CF card of family photos @ 128k? - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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