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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/cloud.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/cloud.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d612feac --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/cloud.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +The [[syncing]] design assumes the network is connected. But it's often +not in these pre-IPV6 days, so the cloud needs to be used to bridge between +LANS. + +## more cloud providers + +Git-annex already supports several cloud providers via [[special_remotes]. +More should be added, such as: + +* Google drive (attractive because it's free) +* OpenStack Swift +* Box.com (it's free, and current method is hard to set up and a sorta + shakey) +* Dropbox? That would be ironic.. + +## limited space + +When syncing via the cloud, space there is probably limited, so +users with more files than cloud space will want to be able to use the +cloud as a temporary transfer point, which files are removed from after +they've propigated out. + +Other users will want to use the cloud as the canonical or backup location +of their data, and would want a copy of all their files to be kept there. +That's also ok. + +git-annex will need a way to tell the difference between these, either +heuristically, or via configuration. |