-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 11
Storing a few TB of data? #5
Comments
Data added to ipfs is only stored locally until another interested party requests it from you. ipfs itself (the protocol) provides no guarantees of redundancy or remote storage. |
I'll add that that's why Filecoin exists-- as a way to incentivize networks of people to replicate/backup your data. |
BTW, could someone confirm that |
@sudhirj that is correct. Similar to adding files into git, in the future we may find a way to work around this. |
Okay. Then let's put down alternative options for others as well (I'm looking at it for large-file data distribution). The alternatives to this are
|
This issue has been moved to https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/storing-a-few-tb-of-data/476. |
If I push a few TB of data into ipfs (say some media files, install isos etc) -- is that a reasonable use of the technology? How could/should I assure that the network has the capacity to safely store the data, with suitable redundancy? If I dedicate a few TB of disk on my server to ipfs -- can I make sure that some sensible portion is reserved for my use?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: