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    Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?

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    [–] Kraiden@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
    [–] MTZ@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

    This is just minor datahoarding. I do it, on an extreme level.

    [–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Or, in this post fact era just generate a wiki with a hallucinating AI instead.

    https://github.com/XanderStrike/endless-wiki

    Honestly this project looks like a lot of fun.

    [–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    So I actually have a dockerized Debian/Ubuntu mirror I think is like 2 versions ob Debian and the latest Ubuntu and still less then 1tb in total size. The English wikipedia is 50gb so overall not that much and very doable. However pretty unnecessary

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I would also add Openstreetmap to the list

    [–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I downloaded wikipedia a month or two ago, I recommend it.

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    [–] eah@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    This post foreshadowed today's AWS outage.

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    [–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Official numbers here https://www.debian.org/mirror/size

    About 4.4TB, but that's all architectures and (I believe?) all distributions (stable, testing...).

    If you only want source+all+amd64+arm64, and only want stable, it will be smaller of course.

    Not nothing, but at $10/TB or so, it's not much.

    And if you're following 3-2-1, I'm pretty sure the "1" is already handled for you :)

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    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Okay so where do I find some cheap hard drives? Europe if possible :-)

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    [–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

    I still have a copy of wikipedia from 2021 somewhere on my NAS.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Might store it on an external HDD. I got plenty.

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