BackupIT: An Intrusion-Tolerant Cooperative Backup System

  • Authors:
  • Sérgio Raymundo Loest;Marcelo Cheminn Madruga;Carlos Alberto Maziero;Lau Cheuk Lung

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Eigth IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Reliable storage of large amounts of data is always a delicate issue. Availability, efficiency, data integrity, and confidentiality are some features a data backup system should provide. At the same time, corporate computers offer spare disk space and unused networking resources. In this paper, we propose an intrusion-tolerant cooperative backup system that provides a reliable collaborative backup resource by leveraging these independent, distributed resources. This system makes efficient use of network and storage resources through compression, encryption, and efficient verification processes. It also implements a protocol to tolerate Byzantine behaviors, when nodes arbitrarily deviate from their specifications. Experiments performed to evaluate the proposal showed its viability.