In the process of downloading the National Archives' youtube channel - 2914 videos. You know the fascists will start deleting these. I will have a shiny new torrent! #datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent #antifa #resistance #resist

The “Take It Down” Act is why we can NOT trust any server in the USA any longer. Yay #federation. Fuck #fascism

I didn't expect torrents to go from a pirate's best friend to resisting fascism so abruptly....but here we are. #fascism #datapreservation #dataprotection

NEW: Director of Wayback Machine, Mark Graham @mark dives into the End of Term @internetarchive campaign; reveals how researchers & journalists fight to preserve government data before it disappears.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4gIbrqh
#DataPreservation #journalism

EDIT: ARCHIVE.ORG sets have been fixed. Let the downloading commence!

My US government data hoarding page is up and ready with links and torrents. The torrents are all being seeded by my junkbox torrent server. I will continue to add torrents as I download things.

https://www.lydie.cc/data.html

16TB collection of federal public datasets linked by data.gov, including over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, are now part of a new data vault project seeking to preserve vital research data.

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

Due to the current data preservation emergency, I'm pretty sure I'm going to find at least 20 terabytes to stuff into an old 8 drive tower that I'm building out of junk box parts and then I will host government data mirrors that the fascists have wiped out. #datahoarder #datapreservation #fascists

Regarding the data disappearing from government websites:

If you think dara archiving is cool, go give money or volunteer with one of these orgs working to keep vital government information available to the American people.

You can also contribute by writing your politicians or calling them to complain about the removal of data that YOUR taxes paid for.

We the people own this data. Taking it from us is nothing less than robbery.

https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113929148334504422

yt-dlp works on nasa plus streams to rip them to your drive, i've grabbed what i can before it disappears, would appreciate some redundancy, please help archive this

yt-dlp can be found here:
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://plus.nasa.gov/video/the-color-of-space-a-nasa-documentary-showcasing-the-stories-of-black-astronauts/

If you want to grab the stream, play a video and right-click it -> Inspect. It will bring up a developer pane with source code for the page with the video element already highlighted. Expand by clicking triangle, the URL you want ends in .m3u8, copy it out and use that with yt-dlp

This is in firefox, I don't use chrome but it also has an equivalent developer feature, so adjust as needed

The hoard's storage. The MyBooks are primary storage and 1st mirror (104TB). The tall black unit is an air-gapped mirror (32TB). The small black unit is the new air-gapped offsite mirror (36TB). #data #datahoarder #datapreservation #backups #storage #harddrives

Is anyone out there creating an archive of the EPA’s website? There is a lot of valuable information that could be lost if someone were to do something stupid like, say, remove every mention of climate change.

Tip: Download local backups of repositories you've favourited on GitHub. Just click the green "Code" button and "Download ZIP". You didn't expect Internet Archive to go offline either, did you?

If the repository hasn't been forked yet and doesn't seem to contain anything illegal, consider forking it too (as a backup for others).
#GitHub #dataPreservation

A question for #Archivist #DataPreservation

If you add up all formats of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J62hGda9BQ it's over a terabyte. Are you going to preserve it? Is Google?

Now multiply that for all the videos on YouTube. It's almost impossible.

Archiving the data from the MFM hard disk of #triglavcomputer After posting this video, we discovered during data analysis that the FUJITSU M2243AS2 hard drive actually has 11 heads, not just 8 as detected by the MFM reader. Consequently, a re-read was necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6djKHgWjM

For #RetroComputing / #Archival / #DataPreservation peeps: Anyone have copies of #ARM DDI 0100 ("ARM Architecture Reference Manual") revisions A, C, F, G, or H? I only have B, D, E, and I. I promise I'll put a complete bundle of them up on the @internetarchive if I can track down the complete bundle.

Hunting for rare Slovenian software from the early PC era, we've combed through dozens of hard drives of all types and sizes.

The Caltech Library has been awarded an NSF infrastructure grant to provide storage for campus research group. My colleague Tom Morrell is the PI. Here's a nice summary: https://library.caltech.edu/blog/CaltechDATA-Awarded-NSF-Campus-Cyberinfrastructure-Grant

Dumping MiniDisc Media https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1384 #minidisc #datapreservation