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wip distributed backup / file mirroring tool

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Open juliangruber opened 11 years ago

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

@dominictarr @hij1nx

Hey,

so I got frustrated about dropbox being a centralized service and bittorrent sync being closed source and not working on SmartOS.

=> Since dominic talked about this before, let's write a distributed backup / file mirroring tool!

I'm laying out some of the base ideas and collecting useful resources, deciding on the feature set etc.

What do you guys think?

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

adding @maxogden for his experience with binary data and leveldb, and cat taming skills

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

removed you guys as collaborators again, please tell me if you want to be one. Just realized that I don't like when other just insert me into their repos :D

max-mapper commented 11 years ago

I think we need a cross platform menubar application container thingy that runs node + a web app UI when you click on the menu bar icon, e.g how dropbox does it but npm installable.

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juliangruber commented 11 years ago

good idea, we could probably get some heads up from the cloudup guys since they've built that, although they're not shipping via npm

hughsk commented 11 years ago

You could use node-webkit for a tray icon, though only using the system default menus on OSX until someone fixes this issue. @shama just published an npm-installable wrapper pretty much a day ago, too.

dominictarr commented 11 years ago

I attempted this before, and then gave up, but that was in jan, and can do much better now. https://github.com/dominictarr/nodedrop

Also, I made this on sunday: https://github.com/dominictarr/merkle

Am getting much better at this stuff, so we will probably have the skills to build this soon.

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

thanks a lot @hughsk @dominictarr, added all of that to the readme. Do you by chance know people that would would be a great fit to contribute?

ghost commented 11 years ago

Can I help with html and css?

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

@joelcipriano yes! :) we'll need that for sure for the

public facing website
menu bar app

and maybe for the webapp version the user hosts himself or on his server.

@StarBurst1977 mentioned he'd also like to help out and can do design/html/css, so you can bounce idea off each other!

shama commented 11 years ago

I'd like to help with this. I've been diving into node-webkit and fixing that tray issue is high on my list.

hughsk commented 11 years ago

Also keen to help out with the frontend and appification :)

ghost commented 11 years ago

Ok. Can we split @StarBurst1977? You, design. Me, html & css?

juliangruber commented 11 years ago

re webapp: https://github.com/juliangruber/backer-frontend/issues/1