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Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup?

RichiH writes "Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage on multiple server machines running Linux, has Linux &... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Sat, Oct 04 2008

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