#datahoarding — Public Fediverse posts

Looking at the rclone when migrating files off of the old disks onto the new ones is kinda interesting.

Esp. Because I'm very good at naming things...

I literally have no idea what these files are or where they come from at this point. But I'm also too afraid to just delete them.

#rclone #Homelab #DataHoarding

After stepping back for a couple of years, my #datahoarding is back with a vengeance and I spent most of last night studying #yt-dlp's man page and updating my configuration 🤓

#datahoarder

3-2-1-1-1 Backup Rule (Apocalypse Edition)

3 Backups
2 Different media
1 Offsite backup
1 Backup in an Arctic vault
1 Extra-planetary backup

Because if your data doesn't survive a meteor strike, did you even have a backup strategy?

#SysAdmin #BackupRule #DataHoarding #DisasterRecovery #InfoSec

This re-sync to off-line mirror #2 took days 😆

#backups #datahoarder #datahoarding #selfhosted #selfhosting

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

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

Yet another reason to not enable passkeys anywhere.

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/

TL;DR - If an idiot website uses your passkey to encrypt your data, losing/deleting the passkey will almost certainly mean losing your data.

Of course we should all be backing up our stuff locally instead of trusting cloud services, especially for irreplaceable things like pictures and movies, but lets be real, the average user doesn't.

#dataloss #passkey #passkey_security #datahoarding

I'm setting up my fileserver again. Before I used MergerFS and 4x4tb NAS drivers, to aggregate the files on all the drives as one mountpoint. The nice thing about mergerfs is that the disks are completely separate (files are written whole to each disk - nice !). The data is not important at all to me and backed up so I don't need RAID etc. Any suggestions of an alternative approach? I hear ZFS pools are interesting, but never used zfs. #linux #mergerfs #zfs #datahoarding

Bleeping Computer: American Archive of Public Broadcasting fixes bug exposing restricted media. “​A vulnerability in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s website allowed downloading of protected and private media for years, with the flaw quietly patched this month. BleepingComputer was tipped about the flaw by a cybersecurity researcher who asked to remain anonymous, stating that the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/24/bleeping-computer-american-archive-of-public-broadcasting-fixes-bug-exposing-restricted-media/

The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You

THE PERSON SAVING THE MEDIA YOU LOVE IS 👉 YOU 👈

An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 💿 📀 📽️ 📹 :hd_dvd_spin: :blobfoxcomputer:

https://aftermath.site/the-person-saving-the-media-you-love-is-you-vhs-decode-domesday-duplicator-ld-decode-laserdisc

#preservation #archival #archiveorg #digitization #Digitizing #domesday #domesday86 #domesdayduplicator #laserdisc #vhs #betamax #video8 #datahoarder #datahoarding

Does anyone have ideas on how to manage, store, and catalog a collection of 300+ screenshots and other documents? It would be really cool if it was FOSS. Bonus points if it allows the public to browse either specific entries or the entire database through a web interface.

#DataArchival #DataStorage #DataHoarding #DocumentManagement

New instance, who dis?

#introduction

About me:
#usaf
#veteran
#sysadmin
#father
#vegan
#atheist
#exchristian
#boglehead

Interests:
#solar
#electrification
#ev #electricvehicles
#composting
#sustainability
#datahoarding #datahoard
#homelab
#selfhosting
#homeassistant
#scifi

#Introduction #Welcome

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My dream social media platform. What do you think, what are the most interesting ideas, what other features would you like to see, how would be your perfect social media platform?