#datahoarder — Public Fediverse posts

I finally defeated the final boss of my backup migration to Proton Drive.

For months, I have been trying to sync my 500GB media library (around 80k files) to Proton Drive. Every single time, the sync crashed with the exact same error: "1 item failed to backup." The only clue I had was a blurry thumbnail named "Asset 1". No date, no metadata, no search tags.

I was so frustrated that I even asked Proton support to completely wipe my encrypted volume so I could start from scratch. The result was exactly the same.

Finding this file became a manual protocol. I spent months periodically scanning through thousands of files just looking for a visual match to that tiny thumbnail. I finally found it today. It was an old scan from 2017. It was completely frozen - uneditable, unindexed, and gave an error when I tried to export it from my phone.

I managed to track it down via macOS. When I forced an export there, the truth came out: it was not an image at all. It was a .pdf file somehow saved into the photo gallery, and it was silently breaking the entire upload queue.

Removing it fixed everything. The sync is finally 100% complete. The relief of finally closing this mental background process is unmatched.

#ProtonDrive #SelfHosted #DataHoarder #TechSupport #Backup #TechPhilosophy #DataMigration #Fediverse #Proton

I finally defeated the final boss of my backup migration to Proton Drive.

For months, I have been trying to sync my 500GB media library (around 80k files) to Proton Drive. Every single time, the sync crashed with the exact same error: "1 item failed to backup." The only clue I had was a blurry thumbnail named "Asset 1". No date, no metadata, no search tags.

I was so frustrated that I even asked Proton support to completely wipe my encrypted volume so I could start from scratch. The result was exactly the same.

Finding this file became a manual protocol. I spent months periodically scanning through thousands of files just looking for a visual match to that tiny thumbnail. I finally found it today. It was an old scan from 2017. It was completely frozen - uneditable, unindexed, and gave an error when I tried to export it from my phone.

I managed to track it down via macOS. When I forced an export there, the truth came out: it was not an image at all. It was a .pdf file somehow saved into the photo gallery, and it was silently breaking the entire upload queue.

Removing it fixed everything. The sync is finally 100% complete. The relief of finally closing this mental background process is unmatched.

#ProtonDrive #SelfHosted #DataHoarder #TechSupport #Backup #TechPhilosophy #DataMigration #Fediverse #Proton

I finally defeated the final boss of my backup migration to Proton Drive.

For months, I have been trying to sync my 500GB media library (around 80k files) to Proton Drive. Every single time, the sync crashed with the exact same error: "1 item failed to backup." The only clue I had was a blurry thumbnail named "Asset 1". No date, no metadata, no search tags.

I was so frustrated that I even asked Proton support to completely wipe my encrypted volume so I could start from scratch. The result was exactly the same.

Finding this file became a manual protocol. I spent months periodically scanning through thousands of files just looking for a visual match to that tiny thumbnail. I finally found it today. It was an old scan from 2017. It was completely frozen - uneditable, unindexed, and gave an error when I tried to export it from my phone.

I managed to track it down via macOS. When I forced an export there, the truth came out: it was not an image at all. It was a .pdf file somehow saved into the photo gallery, and it was silently breaking the entire upload queue.

Removing it fixed everything. The sync is finally 100% complete. The relief of finally closing this mental background process is unmatched.

#ProtonDrive #SelfHosted #DataHoarder #TechSupport #Backup #TechPhilosophy #DataMigration #Fediverse #Proton

A coworker just shared this project with me and I thought many of you may appreciate it as well:

> Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
> Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools running on your own hardware — completely free. No internet required.

https://www.projectnomad.us/

#Wikipedia #DataHoarder #DigitalPreservation #FileSharing #Offline

Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.

Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer

Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient

Dammit #datahoarder #datapreservation #localstorage #backup

As an Internet Archive user, I scour the Web and turn up mainly software and computer data for preservation. For some time now, I have been trying to locate all the files that were ever uploaded to insaneheat.com and tuxracer.fubaby.com, two defunct fan sites for the racing games #1nsane and Tux Racer, respectively. If anyone has all the files stored somewhere, I would greatly appreciate it and remember to leave an attribution.

#datahoarder #dataPreservation #InternetArchive #gaming #TuxRacer

In mid-2024, I bought a bunch of WD/HGST 12TB refurb HDDs for $75 each. They came from GoHardDrive and had a 5-year warranty. I even used the warranty on a drive that died a couple months later. All good.

I see now that GHD is now entirely "sold out" of these drives. However, they have plenty of relabeled MaxDigitalData 12TB drives. These are just the same refurb WD/HGST drives, but with a GoHardDrive house-brand sticker on them.

All to say that my 5-year free-replacement warranty appears to have been swapped with a "30% off" coupon on those 12TB drives (which now cost $250 each). Because, now, GHD can just refund the original $75 purchase price and say they don't have replacements anymore.

#DataHoarder #SelfHosting #HDDs

Dear #DoomsdayPreppers, is there anything online worth #archiving locally? Just curious! Sometimes I do feel that we should have local copy of some useful stuff. The internet is largely temporary with constantly changing narratives, and everything is slowly getting locked up.

#datahoarder

I'm looking into sending a #seagate #ironwolf hdd to #RMA
Does anyone have any previous experience on this? I'm asking because their website is not very clear on whether I should find a parcel company to send it or they send someone to pick it up.

Adding extra relevant tags for visibility.
#datahoarder #selfhost #homelab

Update on the public information archival server:

I just added the most recent torrents from SciOp. The older torrents seem fairly dormant, I have not seen them seeding. That said, there are constantly folks downloading 24/7 from around the world!!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #resist #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #antifa #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Update on the public information archival server:

I just added the most recent torrents from SciOp. The older torrents seem fairly dormant, I have not seen them seeding. That said, there are constantly folks downloading 24/7 from around the world!!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #resist #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #antifa #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Update on the public information archival server:

I just added the most recent torrents from SciOp. The older torrents seem fairly dormant, I have not seen them seeding. That said, there are constantly folks downloading 24/7 from around the world!!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #resist #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #antifa #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Update on the public information archival server:

I just added the most recent torrents from SciOp. The older torrents seem fairly dormant, I have not seen them seeding. That said, there are constantly folks downloading 24/7 from around the world!!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #resist #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #antifa #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Update on the public information archival server:

I just added the most recent torrents from SciOp. The older torrents seem fairly dormant, I have not seen them seeding. That said, there are constantly folks downloading 24/7 from around the world!!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #resist #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #antifa #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

@itsfoss this, but the "I actually use them" lol

I have 80GiB+ of ISOs I need to store for regular imaging use at my place of work and they're filling up me disk

Anyone got any storage suggestions beyond getting a larger OS nvme for my laptop?

#Linux #DiskImaging #DataHoarder #ExceptItsJustified #LinuxHelp

A fresh (via donations) 14TB HDD for the antifa torrent server just landed, and is being surface scanned.

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

A fresh (via donations) 14TB HDD for the antifa torrent server just landed, and is being surface scanned.

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

A fresh (via donations) 14TB HDD for the antifa torrent server just landed, and is being surface scanned.

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

A fresh (via donations) 14TB HDD for the antifa torrent server just landed, and is being surface scanned.

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

A fresh (via donations) 14TB HDD for the antifa torrent server just landed, and is being surface scanned.

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Thanks to additional donations, a 6th 14TB HDD has been ordered for the antifa torrent server. Thank you all immensely!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Thanks to additional donations, a 6th 14TB HDD has been ordered for the antifa torrent server. Thank you all immensely!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Thanks to additional donations, a 6th 14TB HDD has been ordered for the antifa torrent server. Thank you all immensely!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Thanks to additional donations, a 6th 14TB HDD has been ordered for the antifa torrent server. Thank you all immensely!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

Thanks to additional donations, a 6th 14TB HDD has been ordered for the antifa torrent server. Thank you all immensely!

#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The antifa torrent server is busy!! Look at all that seeding. #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The antifa torrent server is busy!! Look at all that seeding. #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The antifa torrent server is busy!! Look at all that seeding. #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The antifa torrent server is busy!! Look at all that seeding. #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The antifa torrent server is busy!! Look at all that seeding. #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

The software side of the antifa torrent server #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

3x 14TB datacenter drives installed so far! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

After spending Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia, to attend RE+, I'm back and able to get some of these new drives into the antifa torrent server. I intend to swap two of these into the server this weekend, which is good timing because another old drive is now failing as well. That's like five 2TB drives that have dropped in the last 6 months lol. Thank you all so much for your generous donations to make this project continue! #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #archiveeverything #digitalactivism #resistanceculture #dataprivacy #infofreedom #independentsource #preservememory #solidarity #nocensorship #archivethefuture #digitalsurvival #freespeech #antifascist #historyisours #digitalsovereignty #safespace #fightfascism

And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.

https://wandering.shop/@leonardr/113935996322582259

#Python #civictech #opensource #FLOSS #BeautifulSoup #civicdata #datascience #scraping #webscraping #datahoarder

And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.

https://wandering.shop/@leonardr/113935996322582259

#Python #civictech #opensource #FLOSS #BeautifulSoup #civicdata #datascience #scraping #webscraping #datahoarder

And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.

https://wandering.shop/@leonardr/113935996322582259

#Python #civictech #opensource #FLOSS #BeautifulSoup #civicdata #datascience #scraping #webscraping #datahoarder