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I have a number of git repos that the original developers deleted - because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea. I think that is how you have to do it - nev

I have a number of git repos that the original developers deleted - because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea. I think that is how you have to do it - never entrust a service, especially a free one, with your only copy of anything you value. If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. My current is standard is one copy in AWS S3 which is super reliable but too pricy for daily use, and one copy in Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2 which might or might not be reliable (time will tell) but is hella cheap for daily use.

no_butterscotch 4y ago
> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. Do you know if this is a common occurrence? Also, I'm only a YouTube viewer and am not familiar with all the creator tools, problems, communities, etc. But would a creator really re-upload all their back-catalog if deleted? Just to try to get back to views and things?
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  I remember someone posting an agonized screed, some time ago, about YT deleting their channel, and all the videos. Apparently, they had not kept the source/rendered originals of the videos, so it actually clobbered their business. I am a scarred, limping old coot, and have learned [the hard way] that backups are goooood.
  - tomcam 4y ago
    > I am a scarred, limping old coot That is a delightfully evocative phrase
- tpxl 4y ago
  A few weeks ago, youtube changed their swearword policy. A creator I follow basically had to delete half their channel or risk termination.
  - patmcc 4y ago
    They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.
    - Marsymars 4y ago
      If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy? (To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=1cac35874913 https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)
  - zxcvbn4038 4y ago
    Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg
  - mgdlbp 4y ago
    Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were. edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDfv0bFBkxJsTIr7VejNRA https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtube.com/c/SyncFag https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu... // Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that
- MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
  There were a whole bunch of artist and genre specific mixes I used to listen to on yt that are gone now. The uploaders accounts have all been nuked too. The sad thing is I can listen to it all on Spotify but it's not the same.. the creator's did not insignificant work to mix the songs together.
- chipsa 4y ago
  Maybe not on YouTube, but the gunTubers are having issues with YouTube changing their interpretation of the rules and instantly issuing 3 strikes against them for rule violations. And so, it'd be good to have a back catalog to upload to a different service to keep that older material available.
sidewndr46 4y ago
I'm reasonably certain that if YouTube deletes your account uploading them to a new account is expressly forbidden.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  How exactly can they stop you?
  - yunohn 4y ago
    What do you mean? They have extensive content ID/checks.
    - Gordonjcp 4y ago
      Post it somewhere else. Youtube is largely a waste of time, unless you're some right-wing idiot scamming money out of teenagers.
- j45 4y ago
  I’ve read having a secondary test account to post videos under to pass YouTube scans before posting to the real account helps minimize issues.
capableweb 4y ago
> because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea Just a tip: no need to use gitea if you want to replicate a git repository to somewhere else on disk/other disk. Just do something like this: mkdir /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo (cd /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo && git init) git remote add backup /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo git push backup master And now you have a new repository at /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo with a master branch :) It's just a normal git repository, that you also can push to over just the filesystem
- benatkin 4y ago
  Have you tried running gitea? It's very light on resources, has good documentation, and also defualts to a main branch. It's also very easy to control where all the data is stored, and works well w/ sqlite.
  - tryauuum 4y ago
    Is the "main" branch an advantage? I guess only if >50 percent of your repos use "main" branch
    - benatkin 4y ago
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      - Alupis 4y ago
        That is an awful lot of contortions you are doing here, to seemingly justify a word change that has had well-cemented meaning within the tech community since it's inception. We all know why this change exists, and why some people will attempt to persuade others of it's superiority. It is, however, just silly virtue signaling, and it's exhausting to hear and read. It would require some very irrational and underdeveloped reasoning to assert this word has anything to do with oppression in 2023. There is no negative connotation, except in those who wish to perpetuate some weird sensation of altruism... ie. no one is safer or feels better simply because you choose to call it "main" rather than "master".
wjdp 4y ago
For this I have a NAS with a pretty basic script that runs nightly to clone any new repos I have and update those already backed up. They get organised into a directory structure mirroring that of Github: `./github.com/user/repo` If of any use to anyone else: https://gist.github.com/wjdp/a20cb15f76b651124b3b27cde06d121f https://gist.github.com/wjdp/a20cb15f76b651124b3b27cde06d121...
stuaxo 4y ago
Wonder if any data hoarders have made scripts to clone every site you have started on GitHub?
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no_butterscotch 4y ago

> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. Do you know if this is a common occurrence? Also, I'm only a YouTube viewer and am not familiar with all the creator tools, problems, communities, etc. But would a creator really re-upload all their back-catalog if deleted? Just to try to get back to views and things?

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
I remember someone posting an agonized screed, some time ago, about YT deleting their channel, and all the videos. Apparently, they had not kept the source/rendered originals of the videos, so it actually clobbered their business. I am a scarred, limping old coot, and have learned [the hard way] that backups are goooood.
- tomcam 4y ago
  > I am a scarred, limping old coot That is a delightfully evocative phrase
tpxl 4y ago
A few weeks ago, youtube changed their swearword policy. A creator I follow basically had to delete half their channel or risk termination.
- patmcc 4y ago
  They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.
  - Marsymars 4y ago
    If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy? (To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=1cac35874913 https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)
- zxcvbn4038 4y ago
  Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg
- mgdlbp 4y ago
  Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were. edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDfv0bFBkxJsTIr7VejNRA https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtube.com/c/SyncFag https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu... // Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
There were a whole bunch of artist and genre specific mixes I used to listen to on yt that are gone now. The uploaders accounts have all been nuked too. The sad thing is I can listen to it all on Spotify but it's not the same.. the creator's did not insignificant work to mix the songs together.
chipsa 4y ago
Maybe not on YouTube, but the gunTubers are having issues with YouTube changing their interpretation of the rules and instantly issuing 3 strikes against them for rule violations. And so, it'd be good to have a back catalog to upload to a different service to keep that older material available.

sidewndr46 4y ago

I'm reasonably certain that if YouTube deletes your account uploading them to a new account is expressly forbidden.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
How exactly can they stop you?
- yunohn 4y ago
  What do you mean? They have extensive content ID/checks.
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    Post it somewhere else. Youtube is largely a waste of time, unless you're some right-wing idiot scamming money out of teenagers.
j45 4y ago
I’ve read having a secondary test account to post videos under to pass YouTube scans before posting to the real account helps minimize issues.

capableweb 4y ago

> because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea Just a tip: no need to use gitea if you want to replicate a git repository to somewhere else on disk/other disk. Just do something like this: mkdir /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo (cd /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo && git init) git remote add backup /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo git push backup master And now you have a new repository at /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo with a master branch :) It's just a normal git repository, that you also can push to over just the filesystem

benatkin 4y ago
Have you tried running gitea? It's very light on resources, has good documentation, and also defualts to a main branch. It's also very easy to control where all the data is stored, and works well w/ sqlite.
- tryauuum 4y ago
  Is the "main" branch an advantage? I guess only if >50 percent of your repos use "main" branch
  - benatkin 4y ago
    [flagged]
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
    - Alupis 4y ago
      That is an awful lot of contortions you are doing here, to seemingly justify a word change that has had well-cemented meaning within the tech community since it's inception. We all know why this change exists, and why some people will attempt to persuade others of it's superiority. It is, however, just silly virtue signaling, and it's exhausting to hear and read. It would require some very irrational and underdeveloped reasoning to assert this word has anything to do with oppression in 2023. There is no negative connotation, except in those who wish to perpetuate some weird sensation of altruism... ie. no one is safer or feels better simply because you choose to call it "main" rather than "master".

wjdp 4y ago

For this I have a NAS with a pretty basic script that runs nightly to clone any new repos I have and update those already backed up. They get organised into a directory structure mirroring that of Github: `./github.com/user/repo` If of any use to anyone else: https://gist.github.com/wjdp/a20cb15f76b651124b3b27cde06d121f https://gist.github.com/wjdp/a20cb15f76b651124b3b27cde06d121...

stuaxo 4y ago

Wonder if any data hoarders have made scripts to clone every site you have started on GitHub?

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