[HN Gopher] A Visit to the Physical Internet Archive
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       A Visit to the Physical Internet Archive
        
       Author : edward
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2023-10-29 15:47 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (thenewstack.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (thenewstack.io)
        
       | cududa wrote:
       | I'm curious if anyone has any good articles on the Internet
       | Archive's backup procedure?
        
         | dmd wrote:
         | There isn't a backup procedure. If something were to happen to
         | the primary in San Francisco[0], that's it.
         | 
         | There have been many attempts to crowdsource the backup (e.g.
         | http://iabak.archiveteam.org/, now defunct), but none have
         | approached backing up even a tiny fraction.
         | 
         | The IA has been approached several times by companies offering
         | to provide a backup location, but has rebuffed them on the
         | grounds that they want any backup to be community-owned-and-
         | maintained. Which I understand, but this is classic "perfect is
         | the enemy of the good" behavior.
         | 
         | [0] Fortunately, SF isn't known for large scale natural
         | disasters.
        
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