36. The method in claim 32 , wherein said peer-to-peer communication of updated Consolidation Strings occurs by manually transporting physical storage devices with data from the communication-originating data-source node to upload onto said peer systems that house other data-source nodes.
32. The method in claim 26 , wherein said Inter-Node Consolidation is set up by communicating updated Consolidation Strings to other data-source nodes in a peer-to-peer fashion.