... 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 am so confused by what these people do.
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.
It's a content addressable storage system. There's plugins to import or export from various major services like foursquare, twitter, etc. and plugins let you store stuff in S3 or mongo or google cloud storage, etc.
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
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.