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Wuala
« on: May 22, 2010, 10:27:40 PM »
Hi everybody, Have anyone tried Wuala?
Actually I use it and I love it, With it you can do backups, share files online and much more. It system is a little bit complicated all the files are encrypted and divided into fragments, than is shared by the community. Basically Is P2P secure sharing and backup service. You start with 1 gb of space free, but you can buy more or TRADE(I love this feature with this you can trade local space for wuala online space, for example I trade 50 GB of my local computer space And I can win Up to 50 GB of space in wuala.) Their Client is programmed in Java.

Their Main website is  www.wuala.com
If you register using a referal of other person you start with 2GB of free space
Here is the link of my referal if you want use it: http://www.wuala.com/referral/HF6JHF7NNJHK5AFM5FHB

This seems Off-Topic but actually if you think well here we are talking about a service that can help some users Protecting their data by backing up.


If someone have questions fell free to ask.

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Re: Wuala
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2010, 10:57:17 PM »
windows live skydrive have 25GB free

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Re: Wuala
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2010, 11:19:15 PM »
Mozy has the same space for 2,256Mb and you can get more by referrals.
Also, it does on-line backup automatically.
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Re: Wuala
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2010, 11:24:25 PM »
Wuala also does backups automatically, You can get the space that you want if you trade your local space. For example if I trade 100 GB I can get up to 100 GB. With Wuala you can use it to Share and Backup's. It have also time travel for backups. Which is a very cool function. Concluding with wuala you can have the space that you want if you want to share your local disk.

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Re: Wuala
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2010, 11:31:00 PM »
windows live skydrive have 25GB free

Windows Live Skydrive was not built to backup but only to share and you can only upload 50mb per file with wuala the limit per file is 14 GB, this will probably increase they are only doing some things,. You can get more space using Wuala.
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Re: Wuala
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2010, 11:59:32 PM »
Wuala uses turns every user's computer into a part of the overall cloud and stores encrypted portions of files across accordingly.
Employing AES-128 and RSA-2048 encryption, Wuala's approach is akin to turning the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux of its users into one giant RAID array.
Since Wuala stores portions of files across all of its users' computers—no matter how encrypted—will likely be too much of a turnoff for the majority of potential users.
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Re: Wuala
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2010, 12:04:49 AM »
good  question that have an answer, some fragments are stored on the cloud and other on the wuala servers. So for example if from the 200 fragments 30 are lost due to a user shutdown their system, The wuala servers will boostrap the service and give the remain fragments.

About security I really think that is not an issue because a user will not receive all the file in fragments just some and with that fragments even if he decrypts the file he cannot reconstruct the file because he only have few fragments.
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Re: Wuala
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2010, 12:12:25 AM »
I see Wuala has been acquired by LaCie...sounds interesting and easier to trust ;)
http://www.lacie.com/us/more/?id=10097

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Re: Wuala
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2010, 10:28:27 PM »
I use it and I love it.

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Re: Wuala
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 09:23:11 PM »
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Wuala uses turns every user's computer into a part of the overall cloud and stores encrypted portions of files across accordingly.

sounds a lot like freenet
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