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well due to the encryption inside wuala (or maybe even more secure at a later date with the help of opensource gpg/gnupg/pgp-plugins) the best backup scenario in terms of availability of distributed backups would be still the internet....

dumping your data on potentially millions of clients rather than just inside your lan/wan or even just inside your office (think about desaster scenario: fire/quake/planecrash/theft/catastrophy...) would be much better....

creating a separated wuala client-island would also need the managing backend/servers or the future wuala clients would need to incorporate more of the backend functionality so that a bunch of clients could provide the whole and complete functionality of the wuala network without the need to rely on central servers or special nodes.....

anyways, why not use the public wuala network also for your company as of now?

cheers.

Hmmm, actually, the Idea itself seems to be very powerful. To offer Wuala to business as a way to leverage existing hardware to get at next to no additional cost a highly redundant backup solution. maybe the team should get look into this as it might be a valuable additional revenue source for Wuala.

Of course, it might only make sense when you have several hundreds clients in the ecosystem. For 20-30 clients I do not think that it might work in terms of redundancy.

no you cant as of now as wuala heavly relies on the wuala/caleido backend/servers and services... the whole "browsing" in the wuala browser, viewing/searching files, statistics and so on is all backend dependant i would say....

maybe if wuala goes opensource and they also publish the other parts not just the client, one could establish separated wuala-island installations from the rest of the internet.