[LUG] FOG backup services - notathome servers.

[Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With all the mentions of home servers I thought I'd mention something - 
a while back the company I worked for hosted a machine for another 
company, who did the same and it was in  a DMZ so the other company 
could access it over the internet and use it for remote backups, ditto 
us at their site.
It should be possible to do the same for each other - hosting a remotely 
accessible VM where the host site knows nothing of the encryption setup 
and in the event of a disaster you could get the host site to meet you 
down the pub for data recovery purposes, as would the initial disk be 
handed over- along with some form of recognition of ownership of the 
said device so the host cant be forced to hand over keys they don't know 
by big bully.
Need a form of social-contract - i.e. not hammering the living daylights 
out of someone's bandwidth out of agreed working hours and other TOS.
Ludicrous idea or worth looking into formalising an RFC? Should be 
expandable to SME's  wot with all the flooding we've been having!
Tom te tom te om


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