2015-07-26 21:32:30 +00:00
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# Use Cases
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First, read [the overview](/docs/overview).
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These are some higher-level roadmap goals. Only the first few are done, but all
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are various stages of implementation (as of 2013-06-12).
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* **Filesystem backups**: easy initial use case. Since you can easily put
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[files & directories and such](/docs/schema) in camlistore with
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[camput](/cmd/camput), you can use Camlistore for your backups. Incremental
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backups are basically free.
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* **Efficient remote filesystem**: should be easy to do an aggressively caching
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remote FUSE filesystem. Read-only is trivial. Read-write shouldn't be too
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painful. Every modification would be snapshotted implicitly, so revision
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control would be the default.
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* **Decentralized sharing system**: share anything of yours with anybody or
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everybody (private is the default). This is already starting to work. See
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[sharing](/docs/sharing).
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* **Blog / photo hosting / Document Management CMS:** I intend to run my
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personal blog and photo / gallery hosting (with permissions) off of Camlistore.
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I also intend to replace my "scanningcabinet" document management software and
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use Camlistore instead.
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* **Decentralized social networking**: a lofty but persistent goal. For
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example, to implement comments or tagging: One person could use claims to
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attach metadata to another person's image blob. The signing lets you verify
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identity. The sharing/syncing semantics of camlistore let you easily save a
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copy of all your friends' pictures.
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* **Import/export adapters for hosted web services:** Don't worry about web
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services shutting down or going downhill. Mirror all your data online in your
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private store. Create it either in Camlistore (using open tools) and export to
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hosted services, or create content in hosted services and continually mirror it
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back into your private Camlistore. Relax knowing that your data is yours,
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forever.
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