70. The method in claim 64 , wherein said Inter-Node Consolidation is set up by communicating updated Consolidation Strings to another data-source node in a peer-to-peer fashion.
70. The method in claim 64 , wherein said Inter-Node Consolidation is set up by communicating updated Consolidation Strings to another data-source node in a peer-to-peer fashion. 74. The method in claim 70 , 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 a peer system that houses another data-source node.