[p2p-hackers] P2P Backup Survey...

[Martin LANDERS]

Hi Folks,

recently joined the list, and really like the in-depth discussions here.

My name is Martin Landers, and I'm currently working on P2P Backup, the
topic of my "Diplomarbeit" (think Master's thesis). As part of my work
I'm trying to figure out in which "environment" a P2P application,
especially P2P backup has to operate, in order to evaluate whether P2P
backup is possible on a global scale (internet), or rather confined to
scenarios like corporate LANs. To do so, I'm currently running a survey,
trying to gather data from as many volunteer's machines as possible,
in order to do statistics on things like: free hard disk space (total/used
hard disk space), internet connection speed, distribution of file sizes,
distribution of file modification times, etc.

To make things easy for the people running the survey I've written a
Java-application that collects all the neccessary data, and can upload it
to a server. The survey is anonymous. People concerned about security can
check the results out themselves before uploading.

	The survey application is available at:

		http://p2psurvey.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg


I figure the results of this survey might be interesting to people on this
list as well, so I'm asking for your assistance in promoting the whole
thing. Maybe you can help getting the word out, so I can collect more
data, leading to more useful results. A try at getting the survey
slashdotted failed so far - maybe you're more sucessful than I am ;)

If you have any suggestions, questions, or whatever, don't hesitate
to contact me, I'm interested in feedback of any kind, and would love to
discuss the idea with people.


Thanks,

Martin Landers