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I'm very sorry to hear about this. Shipping stuff internationally can be hair raising when it goes wrong. I used to regularly ship about $500k worth of computer
by bane 10y ago
I'm very sorry to hear about this. Shipping stuff internationally can be hair raising when it goes wrong. I used to regularly ship about $500k worth of computer equipment all over the place and it one time got caught up in German customs. A colleague of mine in Germany had to drive from Munich to Frankfurt and back many times over the course of several weeks to get it sorted out. IIR the problem was some minor form had been filled out incorrectly (by me). Huge mess. Hopefully this collection will turn up soon.
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>Although I can't afford to host this content (it weighs in at hundreds of gigabytes)
I really urge you to get in contact with Jason Scott about getting a copy of your archive to the Internet Archive. These scans and dumps could be priceless and it makes sense to have as many backups of it as you can.
At any rate, thank you very much for all your hard work, time and expense in doing what it is you do byuu.
- mynewtb 10y agoAn Atom with 1TB disk is just about 10 bucks at ovh/kimsufi. Alternatively there would be many people able and willing to mirror such collection on their own servers.
- orf 10y agoThe bandwidth is the issue I'm guessing. Servers from Hetzner (in Germany) come with 10TB of traffic included
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y agoBitTorrent?
- lucaspiller 10y agoAlso /r/datahoarder. Plently of people there would be willing to help out. I bet there is even somebody willing to drive to your house to fill up a hard disk :)