Comment by jamestomasino
8 years ago
That was my first question, too. After clicking through a few links and even opening up an intro presentation I was left unsatisfied and closed the tab. This project desperately needs an FAQ or overview video up-front.
The video demo on the front page is a great place to get an overview of what it's all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dk2iVlc67M
Is there an overview that's less "an hour long" and more "three sentences"?
https://perkeep.org/doc/overview
This 24 minute overview gives a good idea as to the fundamentals of their system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSzQIwXM1k
It downloads and catalogs a bunch of crap onto a local hard drive.
... but hard drives don't last forever? And if that is all it's doing, why not just save the stuff to your hard drive in the first place.
I am so confused by what these people do.
I spent about ten minutes on the site, so hardly a domain expert. I’m still confused, too. But as best I can understand, you have the option of storage on S3, Azure, and the like. I assume that with a plug-in/driver, you could store anywhere you like.
But non-local storage does seem to be designed in, because there is text like “if there’s a daemon running rsync in the background, you’re doing it wrong” and “if your UI requires marking folders to be synched/not synched, it’s broken”, so there appears to be an assumption of putting your data elsewhere.
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As much as possible the design attempts to be agnostic about where the stuff is actually stored. Usually you want to be storing your stuff in multiple different places. Among others, Perkeep lets you choose one or more (or all) of the following:
Your own hard drive local to the Perkeep instance Your own hard drive local to another Perkeep instance you run Your friend's hard drive local to another Perkeep instance _they_ run with encryption to ensure privacy A removable hard drive you can periodically sync to and from A cloud service like S3, etc
It has sync and backup options, tools for non destructive changes and robust search, a web UI so it can be used like a dropbox. Just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's useful to no one. Oh and importers for cloud things, they show off automatic sync pulling down a twitter feed and some foursquares check-ins.
Not an effort to sway your opinion, just pointing out that it's not really as simple as just saving images to a hard disk.
That is a completely misleading / outright wrong description.
1. It can work with any data storage method you want afaict. S3, B2, GCS, local, etc. 2. It's primary goal is to store your data forever, regardless of hard drive failures / storage companies folding / whatever.