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Life & fun · November 21, 2012

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We built an appliance with Raspberry Pi that backs up from the cloud

http://picirus.com For Startup Weekend Tulsa, we created a small low-power appliance (built on Raspberry Pi) that you connect to your different cloud accounts -- Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, etc. -- and it downloads a copy of all your stuff every night. I was thinking about all the people I love who share directly to the cloud, without a lot of planning for the case where their Facebook account gets hacked, their Dropbox account has a glitch, or one of these services they love goes out of business suddenly some day. We had a ton of fun building Picirus during Startup Weekend. I highly…

We built an appliance with Raspberry Pi that backs up from the cloud launched on November 21, 2012 with 17 votes, #100 of 543 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Picirus is a Raspberry Pi-based appliance that automatically backs up content from cloud services like Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox to local storage each night. Designed for people who store photos and files online, it protects against account hacks, service outages, or unexpected account losses by maintaining independent copies of cloud-stored content. The device connects to multiple cloud accounts and runs on low power consumption.

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http://picirus.com For Startup Weekend Tulsa, we created a small low-power appliance (built on Raspberry Pi) that you connect to your different cloud accounts -- Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, etc. -- and it downloads a copy of all your stuff every night. I was thinking about all the people I love who share directly to…

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