An Availability Algorithm for Backup Systems Using Secure P2P Platform

In terms of storage and processing, is widely known that organizations infrastructure is misused, being idle most of the time. Consequently, there is an emerging need for solutions that take advantages of the idle capacity of this infrastructure. In this context, the P2P architecture proves to be an efficient way to make a good use of this capacity by implementing distributed backup systems. This work presents a proposal for an algorithm that can be used in P2P networks to quantify as well as ensures the availability of restoring files anytime in percentage terms, so that any hardware failure does not affect the backup operation. The algorithm proposed improves reliability on P2P network, making possible to validate using percent values the availability of a peer.