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Maybe they could start a Archive@Home project for volunteers to donate unused disk space for the greater good.

by riobard 10d ago

schmeichel 10d ago
I know I'd love to run something like this!
TechSquidTV 10d ago
They do have that. All archives have torrents.
- johannes1234321 10d ago
  Which means somewhat popular, somewhat larger have backups. Important would be backups for things nobody else is interested in. The ones where one person in 10 years will ask for.
- mitxela 9d ago
  And half those torrents are missing half their files because the torrent generator races with the upload process and often runs on a half completed upload.
  - ndiddy 9d ago
    This has been a problem for years at this point and they still haven’t fixed it, it’s frankly bizarre.
toomuchtodo 9d ago
https://getdweb.net/ https://getdweb.net/ is that project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 > As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/ https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/ Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324 - February 2026 (119 comments) u/stavros proposed "Elephant" as well, which could be implemented today without Archive.org's explicit assistance. Elephant system design - https://gist.github.com/skorokithakis/68984ef699437c5129660d12d576e09e https://gist.github.com/skorokithakis/68984ef699437c5129660d... (A distributed, voluntary backup system (high-level design document)) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637992 (additional context) (TLDR Every Archive.org item has a torrent, enabling distributed replication and serving of archived items and their contents, Wayback is a bit trickier; you can also ask your local nation state and museum/preservation apparatus to colocate some IA racks, if one is so inclined; The Internet Archive’s entire annual budget ($30M-$40M) covers 200PB storage plus all operations)

Maybe they could start a Archive@Home project for volunteers to donate unused disk space for the greater good.

by riobard 10d ago

Maybe they could start a Archive@Home project for volunteers to donate unused disk space for the greater good.

schmeichel 10d ago

I know I'd love to run something like this!

TechSquidTV 10d ago

They do have that. All archives have torrents.

johannes1234321 10d ago
Which means somewhat popular, somewhat larger have backups. Important would be backups for things nobody else is interested in. The ones where one person in 10 years will ask for.
mitxela 9d ago
And half those torrents are missing half their files because the torrent generator races with the upload process and often runs on a half completed upload.
- ndiddy 9d ago
  This has been a problem for years at this point and they still haven’t fixed it, it’s frankly bizarre.

toomuchtodo 9d ago

https://getdweb.net/ https://getdweb.net/ is that project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 > As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/ https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/ Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324 - February 2026 (119 comments) u/stavros proposed "Elephant" as well, which could be implemented today without Archive.org's explicit assistance. Elephant system design - https://gist.github.com/skorokithakis/68984ef699437c5129660d12d576e09e https://gist.github.com/skorokithakis/68984ef699437c5129660d... (A distributed, voluntary backup system (high-level design document)) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637992 (additional context) (TLDR Every Archive.org item has a torrent, enabling distributed replication and serving of archived items and their contents, Wayback is a bit trickier; you can also ask your local nation state and museum/preservation apparatus to colocate some IA racks, if one is so inclined; The Internet Archive’s entire annual budget ($30M-$40M) covers 200PB storage plus all operations)