If I lost all my data, I'd just download some more. There's no shortage of it. Maybe the new data will be better
archive.org should have a service where you pay them a couple bucks and they mail you a DVD full of random data. Like a blind bag. Here's 4.7GB of text files, magazine scans, Phish concerts, quasi-legal scans of books that are out of print and it's unclear who owns the rights, snapshots of websites from 2004, shareware compilation disks, etc. You never know what treasures you'll uncover!
@matt archive.org just like a box of chocolate
@matt archive.org offers an API so a version of this should be doable
@matt not so long ago you had IA.BAK which were trying to backup archive.org. Anyone could register and choose an amount of data to backup.
Their goal was to create a distributed backup of all their data. Any user could host some wikipedia samples, some ebooks, some … things.
I did it for some times it was quite nice. You just had to check files once a month with git-annex. Sadly the project stopped.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
@matt yes but please make it a 4.7 USB thumb drive 🙂
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