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OSDI '02 Abstract
Pastiche: Making Backup Cheap and Easy
Landon P. Cox, Christopher D. Murray, and Brian D. Noble, University of Michigan
Abstract
Backup is cumbersome and expensive. Individual
users almost never back up their data, and backup is
a significant cost in large organizations. This paper
presents Pastiche, a simple and inexpensive backup system.
Pastiche exploits excess disk capacity to perform
peer-to-peer backup with no administrative costs. Each
node minimizes storage overhead by selecting peers that
share a significant amount of data. It is easy for common
installations to find suitable peers, and peers with
high overlap can be identified with only hundreds of
bytes. Pastiche provides mechanisms for confidentiality,
integrity, and detection of failed or malicious peers.
A Pastiche prototype suffers only 7.4% overhead for a
modified Andrew Benchmark, and restore performance
is comparable to cross-machine copy.
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