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Are any of these copies being archived in physical media offsite (like thru Iron Mountain)?

The data is stored redundantly (3x) in California, and there are several datacenter locations around the world, but I'm not sure any of them are a full backup of the entire collection.

There is an unofficial project by volunteers to make a geographically-distributed backup of the Archive. http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.B... The basic tech is functioning now, you can run it http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.B... but we're looking for developers to make it more user-friendly. If you'd like to help out, stop by #internetarchive.bak on efnet. http://chat.efnet.org

If one had, say, 1-2PB in unused mag tape but no longer has the hardware to actually write to them -- is there some way to get them put to use?

You should contact the archive team folks. It's likely that someone else might have the necessary drives to write them.

Off topic but you seem like you may work for Archive.org... I tried uploading some Drupal meetup source videos a while ago but it took 1 a week to upload a 100GB file due to what appeared to be an upload cap, so I gave up that idea. I would still really like to upload the videos but I was trying this on a gigabit pipe and it was capped. I submitted feedback in the 'new uploader' thread but never got a response.

Is there really an upload cap? How can I upload faster so it is more feasible?

Thank you

I don't, but I doubt there's a cap. They talk about improving bandwidth utilization all the time. Try emailing info at archive.org or chat with @internetarchive.

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