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:floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line

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:floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-06-29 21:13:00 UTC to 2020-05-27 13:10:24 UTC.

0123452013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2020

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514

What Hacker News says

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PureParadigm·Oct 31, 2019
This seems very similar to Borg Backup [1], so I'm interested to hear from others who have used both on how it compares. More generally, I've been looking for a solution that helps distribute backups in a peer-to-peer way. I have a few friends with their own home servers, and we want to replicate backups across each other's servers for geographical redundancy. Currently, I have a script that uses rsync to copy some tar archives over daily, but this doesn't scale well as more peers want to join our backup-sharing group, since it requires them granting me SSH access. What I need is a decentralized network to share and retrieve backups from peers. I tried using dat [2] with a Borg Backup repository inside it, but ran into some nasty issues with dat which would cause it to regularly crash and one time even corrupt the data. Does anyone have a
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ny suggestions for such a situation? [1] https://www.borgbackup.org/ [2] https://github.com/datproject/dat
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