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this is why archives should be independently duplicated, to head off a massacre. what isnt clear to me is the survival of the content, was there a data migrati

• johtso 5y ago
  All the images still exist on the internet archive, just not in a format that can be explored. What's been lost is the efforts of all the users to separate the interesting images from the chaff.. and organise them into collections. For such a large corpus that's a really valuable thing. Also links people had to those images are just dead. And all the images users had previously favourited have just disappeared from their collections.
  • rolph 5y ago
    what a task it would be, to reconstruct the relations and cobble up a db from user data.
• ineedasername 5y ago
  >this is why archives should be independently duplicated It's an interesting challenge with IA because they have > 100 petabytes of content, many thousands of $ in hard drives alone. Too much for random individuals to decide they want to host their own clone & become a mirror. So, we're be looking at large institutions or companies to do this philanthropically. Or, here's the tech challenge, some distributed mechanism where participants all host a portion, with enough redundancy that a large % could go offline and still keep integrity.