Keep Your Stuff, for Life
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Keep Your Stuff, for Life
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Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#2past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008240
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#3It looks like this hasn't had any updates since May 2018.
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#4It looks like this hasn't had any updates since May 2018.
Why change it?
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#5I admire the goal of reliable long term data storage. I don't need to store tweets or 5TB videos, but my current solution is duplicate DVDs with a bunch of par2 files to hopefully ward off bit rot.
I feel like there's some room for improvement.
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#6It looks like this hasn't had any updates since May 2018.
The GitHub page has lots of fairly recent updates:
https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#7I admire the goal of reliable long term data storage. I don't need to store tweets or 5TB videos, but my current solution is duplicate DVDs with a bunch of par2 files to hopefully ward off bit rot. I feel like there's some room for improvement.
Do you store your par2 files on different discs from the data they refer to? Do you have multiple copies? Do you store the discs in a cool, dark place when you're not using them? Do you have another form of backup, preferably offsite?
If you do all these things, I think that's about the best you can do with optical media.
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#8I admire the goal of reliable long term data storage. I don't need to store tweets or 5TB videos, but my current solution is duplicate DVDs with a bunch of par2 files to hopefully ward off bit rot. I feel like there's some room for improvement.
Do you store your par2 files on different discs from the data they refer to? Do you have multiple copies? Do you store the discs in a cool, dark place when you're not using them? Do you have another form of backup, preferably offsite? If you do all these things, I think that's about the best you can do with optical media.
Haha, I keep the par2s on the same disc, and then I make multiple copies of the same disc and they're in a cardboard box in my basement somewhere.
Re: Keep Your Stuff, for Life
#9Wow, it was really hard to find out what this software does. I finally found a demo at the end of an hour-long talk from 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/PlAU_da_U4s?t=2687
So it seems to have a bunch of scripts to import data into its database from a variety of sources (including cloud services), and provides a search interface to navigate that historical data. And it has a lot of under-the-hood stuff about replication, and it's entirely self-hosted.