Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Data Backup over a Ren Cloud

Enterprise data backup is always a mission critical as well as resource straining operation. In the light of recent surge in near peta-byte databases universities are particularly searching for scalable solutions. Most world universities today are cluster connected via advanced research and education networks-known as RENs. This creates an excellent opportunity to build scalable distributed data-backup and recovery solutions by using each other´s facilities. In this paper we present a network study for a distributed data-backup system which uses cloud like virtualization for almost indestructible data backup.