A Survey of Cooperative Backup Mechanisms

Marc-Olivier Killijian (1) , Ludovic Courtès (1) , David Powell (1)

1 LAAS-TSF - Équipe Tolérance aux fautes et Sûreté de Fonctionnement informatique

Storage capacity, like computing power, follows its Moore's law and grows dramatically. Consequently, the need for data backup services increases. The domain of data backup was recently hit by the peer-to-peer wave: several projects propose to use a cooperative approach to the backup problem. In this paper we survey these projects, the various problems they face and the techniques they propose to tackle them.

Mots clés: Ad-hoc; Peer-to-peer; Cooperative systems; Data backup

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire

Marc-Olivier Killijian, Ludovic Courtès, David Powell. A Survey of Cooperative Backup Mechanisms. 2006. ⟨hal-00139690⟩