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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a set of composable, peer-to-peer protocols for addressing, routing, and transferring content-addressed data in a decentralized file system. Many popular Web3 projects are built on IPFS - see the ecosystem directory for a list of some of these projects.

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Is it possible to back up MacOS or Windows OS itself with IPFS? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Hamzakeiichi@alien.top to c/ipfs@blockchained.world

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Is it possible to back up MacOS or Windows OS itself with IPFS?

If that is possible, please let me know the benefits.

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[–] NoSpaX@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Did I skip the patch, where IPFS had authentication built-in?

I yeah, it would (kind of) work, if you can copy Windows in a non-active state to a node. But considering the size of a Windows installation and network speed (IPFS used to be sloooooooow).. Afaik files uploaded to IPFS are not encrypted as well, so whoever in control of that node can read them - and anyone else can download them, too. You would have to setup a private node on a different PC inside your network. And even then you have to copy the files there somehow.

The next thing would be to: How to download that backup from a bootable USB, so it has network and can read IPFS to write to disk AND write any data required to even boot Windows on a blank drive?

The next thing is: Time. How long will it take to backup? How long to restore? If it takes longer then 15 Minutes, it's basically useless.