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The Internet Archive is a modern Library of Alexandria. The latter was destroyed intentionally or accidentally, nobody knows for sure, but the point is that we

The Internet Archive is a modern Library of Alexandria. The latter was destroyed intentionally or accidentally, nobody knows for sure, but the point is that we have the technology to ensure it doesn't happen again. Jason Scott has more on the backup: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5110 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5110

nandhp 10y ago
Note that Jason Scott is part of Archive Team, which has its own project to backup the Internet Archive: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK http://iabak.archiveteam.org/ http://iabak.archiveteam.org/
- flashman 10y ago
  If there was a simple all-in-one device you could buy to become part of IABAK, I'd probably do it. Embedded firmware, off-the-shelf terabyte hard drive... they could double or triple their userbase.
  - padraic7a 10y ago
    I wonder if the NextCloud Box could be adapted for this? https://nextcloud.com/box/ https://nextcloud.com/box/ It's basically a hard drive in an enclosure, space for a raspberry pi 2 and some software on an sd card [Snappy Ubuntu Core as OS, nextcloud etc installed].
    - pfg 10y ago
      I've thought about building an IA.BAK extension for typical NAS software like Synology's DSM, QNAP's QTS, etc. Unfortunately, I've found that these platforms don't come close to the developer friendliness we've come to expect from app or extension stores - probably one of the reasons why there aren't really all that many extensions available on those devices. Anyway, I'm hoping that situation will improve - unused NAS space would be a pretty big addition to IA.BAK, and you can't beat the UX of just installing an extension on a device you might already own.
Animats 10y ago
The current Library of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has a copy of the Internet Archive from 1996 to 2007.[1] This was intended to be the first of several backup locations for the Archive. But they have not updated it since 2007, and many links return "Temporarily unavailable". They're lucky it survived the collapse of the Egyptian government. [1] http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp...

nandhp 10y ago

Note that Jason Scott is part of Archive Team, which has its own project to backup the Internet Archive: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK http://iabak.archiveteam.org/ http://iabak.archiveteam.org/

flashman 10y ago
If there was a simple all-in-one device you could buy to become part of IABAK, I'd probably do it. Embedded firmware, off-the-shelf terabyte hard drive... they could double or triple their userbase.
- padraic7a 10y ago
  I wonder if the NextCloud Box could be adapted for this? https://nextcloud.com/box/ https://nextcloud.com/box/ It's basically a hard drive in an enclosure, space for a raspberry pi 2 and some software on an sd card [Snappy Ubuntu Core as OS, nextcloud etc installed].
  - pfg 10y ago
    I've thought about building an IA.BAK extension for typical NAS software like Synology's DSM, QNAP's QTS, etc. Unfortunately, I've found that these platforms don't come close to the developer friendliness we've come to expect from app or extension stores - probably one of the reasons why there aren't really all that many extensions available on those devices. Anyway, I'm hoping that situation will improve - unused NAS space would be a pretty big addition to IA.BAK, and you can't beat the UX of just installing an extension on a device you might already own.

Animats 10y ago

The current Library of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has a copy of the Internet Archive from 1996 to 2007.[1] This was intended to be the first of several backup locations for the Archive. But they have not updated it since 2007, and many links return "Temporarily unavailable". They're lucky it survived the collapse of the Egyptian government. [1] http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp...