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Garage - An open-source distributed storage service (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)

submitted 2 years ago by poVoq to c/selfhosting

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[–] yaru 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm trying to wrap my head around what the implementation of a self-hosted distributed filesystem looks like. Is the idea that I would get a few friends, all running servers in our separate homes, and run a garage instance across all of them?

[–] poVoq 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes pretty much. That seems to the the intended use-case, but I think it could also be used locally to distribute/replicate storage on multiple servers easily.

Of course the "friend" could be also a VPS rented somewhere as an off-site backup.

[–] yaru 4 points 2 years ago

That is cool then! I don't see an application for myself at the moment, but anything that implements AWS services without Amazon (or any corp for that matter) is great in my book!