Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    we need all repos to be stored offline, and documentations to troubleshoot.

    the 1st i have no idea how much space we will need. Most linux packages are prerry light, no? But there is A LOT of them…

    the 2nd is easy. Heard someone say the entire of wikipedia is 200GB, should be doable. Dont forget the technical wikis too: Debian, Gentoo, Arch.

    • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      Can’t remember who it was (b3ta? popbitch? penny-arcade?), but I recently saw a comment by someone who’s been running a website since the turn of the millennium, and they said that fully 99% of the links they posted two decades ago were no longer valid.

      To really put that into perspective, you have to remember that for most sites to get linked to from a popular site like that, meant that it was usually something of value that would have had a lot of work put into it, and that people found interesting or useful.