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> never fails to amaze me what people let happen.

Especially since the exact same thing happened a few miles down the road with Terence McKenna's archives at Esalen.

Let us not forget that, until a petty political hysteria[0], there were no plans to have a mirror of Archive.org; just one pretty little building between chaos and order.

As a recurring donor and huge fan of the Archive, I find this pretty concerning.

[0]: https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive...

I'm also a yearly(-ish) donor and also find it a bit concerning considering they did have a fire in the building 4 years ago. Archive Team have the INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK[0] project. I think they're in need of more disk space if anyone has some to spare.

[0]: http://iabak.archiveteam.org/

Thanks for the link! I did not know about IA.BAK. I think I will commit to backing up the whole drive over the next year. ~110TiB is totally doable!

Thanks for sharing I can lend a few TB to this!

Could BackBlaze or somebody do this, maybe as they are burning in new storage clusters?

Seems like it could be some good PR.

Looks like their wiki says there is roughly 14 petabytes of data to be backed up, and only ~105 terabytes have redundant backups now?

I was going to say that too, Terence book collection loss is a bleeding wound still now..

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