Hakim Weatherspoon and Chris Wells and Patrick R. Eaton and Ben Y. Zhao and John D. Kubiatowicz

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-01-1139

2001

The rise of ubiquitous computing has created a need for wide-area durable storage. We propose a model and interface for such an archival system, that stores data in a durable, verifiable, available, and self-maintainable manner. We argue that such a system can be created by using novel techniques of erasure codes, secure hashing, and decentralized wide-area location infrastructures to distribute fragments across the wide-area on an arbitrary set of servers. This model allows files to remain available even as servers fail. Finally, we implement Silverback, a prototype archival system using the model that we developed, and measure its performance.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Weatherspoon:CSD-01-1139,
    Author= {Weatherspoon, Hakim and Wells, Chris and Eaton, Patrick R. and Zhao, Ben Y. and Kubiatowicz, John D.},
    Title= {Silverback: A Global-Scale Archival System},
    Year= {2001},
    Month= {Mar},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/5212.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-01-1139},
    Abstract= {The rise of ubiquitous computing has created a need for wide-area durable storage. We propose a model and interface for such an archival system, that stores data in a durable, verifiable, available, and self-maintainable manner. We argue that such a system can be created by using novel techniques of erasure codes, secure hashing, and decentralized wide-area location infrastructures to distribute fragments across the wide-area on an arbitrary set of servers. This model allows files to remain available even as servers fail. Finally, we implement Silverback, a prototype archival system using the model that we developed, and measure its performance.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Weatherspoon, Hakim 
%A Wells, Chris 
%A Eaton, Patrick R. 
%A Zhao, Ben Y. 
%A Kubiatowicz, John D. 
%T Silverback: A Global-Scale Archival System
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2001
%@ UCB/CSD-01-1139
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/5212.html
%F Weatherspoon:CSD-01-1139