Your backup is someone else's computer. What if it were everyone's?

Description and use

RedundaNet is a community‑run storage network that distributes encrypted, erasure‑coded backups across members’ devices, providing verifiable redundancy, geographic spread, privacy, and data sovereignty without relying on a single cloud provider.

Problem

Relying on commercial cloud backups gives limited control over redundancy, geographic distribution, privacy, sovereignty, and resilience to provider changes.

Outcome

RedundaNet provides a self‑managed, verifiable, geographically distributed backup network that users can run on spare hardware, ensuring privacy, sovereignty, and resilience without relying on a single provider.

Workflow

• 1. Generate a GPG key and submit its fingerprint to the network join form.
• 2. A bot verifies the key and a maintainer merges a pull request adding the member to the Git repo.
• 3. The node software (Dockerized) starts with one configuration file and automatically updates and self‑heals.
• 4. Files placed on the node’s share are encrypted and erasure‑coded by Tahoe‑LAFS and replicated across the mesh VPN to other nodes.
• 5. The public status page continuously counts existing copies and alerts on missing replicas.
• 6. Members can fork the repository, edit membership and network name, and run an independent private storage commons.

Evidence

RedundaNet has a public status page that counts, continuously, how many copies of every stored object actually exist on distinct machines.

Source

The difference is where encryption happens. If your files are encrypted on your own device before they leave it, and the key never leaves with them...

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