No we are not implementing blockchain to our backup systems - eviltoast
  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It makes no sense at all to distribute the backup generation step, and what do you do with your ledger once the retention period ends?

    There may be something you can do with a ledger in the “full - incremental - incremental - incremental …” cycle, but I can’t think of anything that’s actually useful.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      1 year ago

      Since we are designing the consensus algorithm we could remove data that is expired with some quorum vote, or indication from a key holder.

      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        or you could just not do that, and keep control of your own data. Why the hell would I want you to have a vote on whether I can delete my private data, which for some unfathomable reason, someone decided everyone should have a copy of?

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          In practice, data owners don’t have control of their data, sysadmins do. This gets complicated in multi-orgnizational data setups.

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              1 year ago

              data owner was the key one here. If I run a storage service for example, I have control of the data, but you would see it as a breech of trust if I deleted your data, or gave access to someone else without your permission, because you in the scenario are the data owner.