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Never trust a computer that you do not own. The "cloud" is a network of computers you don't own: Data in the cloud is being used to train Al. Hackers can get it. The corporation running it can wipe whatever they want. Fascists could easily ban any commercial server or service. Media just... disappears...like on YouTube, streaming services....or the US government. So download everything. Buy hard drives and hoard as you go. Mirror that data once or twice. Store a copy powered off and unplugged. Burn the super important stuff to archival grade M-DISCs. Run AirSonic or something open source to permit remote access of your media. And if you have some terabytes to spare, download and seed some torrents of public government information that has since been scrubbed from official websites, links below.
The torrents here are seeded by my torrent server 24/7. Please keep your downloads seeding as well! For torrents that I (re)created, I compress the data using 7z Ultra. ExtremeWeather: A large-scale climate dataset for semi-supervised detection, localization, and understanding of extreme weather events (ExtremeWeather A large-scale climate dataset.torrent) 1.5TB English Wikipedia Text Snapshot December 2024 (enwiki-Dec2024.torrent) 23GB NIH Project Data, 2019-2024 (NIH Project Data 2019-2024 - data sets.torrent) 20GB NIH Project Data, 2019-2024 (NIH Project Data 2019-2024 - raw data.torrent) 300MB 01-28-2025 CDC Data sets (20250128-cdc-datasets.torrent) 20GB 10-28-2024 End of Term 2024 Pre Election Crawl (End of Term 2024 Pre Election Crawls 2024-10-28.torrent) 7GB Thru 2024 Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Data (Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Data.torrent) 87GB MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports) 1.3GB (catalog-archives-gov-lgbt.torrent) 1.3TB (data.ed.gov.torrent) 107GB (data_hrsa_gov.torrent) 2GB (fbi-cde.torrent) 51GB (ftp-ncei-noaa-gov.torrent) 120GB (jan6.torrent) 100GB (osha.torrent) 2.2GB
US Government Data Archive Links - this is where I got the data from originally: https://commoncrawl.org/blog/january-2025-crawl-archive-now-available https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024 https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page https://github.com/lisawilliams/NIH_Data https://archive.org/details/academictorrents_c5bf370a90cae548d5a306c1be7d79186b9f60b9
My personal archive consists of 172TB (and always growing). Below, 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). There is no RAID in use. DriveBender is still running the main NAS and air-gapped copy. Stablebit DrivePool is doing the off-site mirror and torrent seed server. All drives are standard NTFS. If one drive dies, it's an easy recovery. I've had two 8TB drives suffer instant death in the past year, and was back up in < 12 hours.
bulk cd/dvd ripping tower	junkbox server - torrent seeding server
off-site air-gapped NAS mirror	Off-line NAS mirror
primary and mirror live drives	been at this a long time !!

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