With everything that’s happening there, I was wondering if it was possible. Obviously their size is massive, but I’m sure there’s a ton of duplicated stuff. Also some things are more important to preserve than others, and some things are preserved elsewhere (Anna’s Archive, Libgen, and Z-Lib come to mind that could preserve books if the IA disappeared).
But how could things get archived from the IA (assuming it’s possible) on both a personal level (aka I want to grab a copy of that wayback snapshot) and on a more wide scale community level? Are there people already working on it? If not, what would be the best theoretical way to get started?
And what are the most important things in your opinion that should be prioritized if the IA was about to disappear and we only had so much time and storage to utilize?
The Internet Archive is supposedly over 99 petabytes in size. That’s an unfathomable amount of data.
I think it’s actually about 150 PB of data that’s then also georedundantly stored in the US and Netherlands. That sounds like a lot, but I think it would be possible to distribute that amount of data
its possible but would require funding and lots of it to maintain.