> On Nov 20, 2021, at 2:06 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2021 18:46, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> Is there an archive.org mirror?
>
> How many of us could afford the disk space? 30PB in 2016 apparently. I know
> that 10 years from now we'll all have PB drives, but right now it would be
> hard. That's 8 years of downloading @ 1Gbps. So I suspect that none of us has
> an archive.org mirror.
>
>
>> What about Wikipedia? There's Infogalactic, but that's a fork, not a mirror.
>
> You can download a copy of Wikipedia and set up a local copy - it's probably
> bigger now but when I tried it, it was about 3GB.
Is that all? What about the graphics? And all the languages? Infogalactic is
a fork only of the English Wikipedia, which is admittedly the biggest one but
certainly insufficient by itself. I've encountered a number of articles that
are far better covered in, say, the German edition than in the English one.
Sumerian is an example.
As for Werner's comment about SVN mirroring, I was unclear. Yes, I know you
can mirror Subversion, or more precisely, the repository admin can set up
remote backups for it. The nice thing about web based archives is that you can
mirror them on your own initiative, at least moderately well. Quite well if
they are structurally simple, like bitsavers.
I have a few open source projects for which I keep the material on my own
Subversion server. One is mirrored; the others aren't. I'd be happy to let
someone mirror them if desired. And I've wondered if I should move them to
Github to make them more visible and automatically mirrored.
paul
