I saw this post and I was curious what was out there.
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113444325077647843
Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?
One option that I’ve heard of in the past
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline.
For myself: Wayback It saves link to multiple different web archives and gives me pdf and warc files.
For others: Archive team have a few active projects to save at risk data and there is IRC channel in which people can suggest adding other websites for saving. They also have wiki with explanations how people can help.
I have a script that archives to:
- Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
- Webpage archive
- Ghostarchive, a website archive
- Self-hosted https://archivebox.io/
I used to solely depend on archive.org, but after the recent attacks, I expanded my options.
Script: https://gist.github.com/YasserKa/9a02bc50e75e7239f6f0c8f04fe4cfb1
EDIT: Added script. Note that the script doesn’t include archiving to archivebox, since its API isn’t available in stable verison yet. You can add a function depending on your setup. Personally, I am depending on Caddy and docker, so I am using caddy module [1] to execute commands with this in my
Caddyfile:route /add { @params query url=* exec docker exec --user=archivebox archivebox archivebox add {http.request.uri.query.url} { timeout 0 } }isn’t this prone to a
|| rm -rf /or something similar at the end of the URL?
if you can
docker exec, you have a lot of privileges already, so be sure to make sure this is not a dangerThank you for the warning. You are correct. It’s prune to command injection. I will validate the URL before executing it. This shoud suffice until archivebox’s rest API is available in stable.
they have an automatic VM that dowloads stuff in distributed manner and uploads to archive.org
archive.org is hosted in the US and could end up being a valid target. It doesn’t strike me as being a very good place to securely store anything nowadays. I’d consider anything hosted in the US to be out.
I archive youtube videos that I like with TubeArchivist, I have a playlist for random videos i’d like to keep, and also subscribe to some of my favourite creator so I can keeptheir videos, even when I’m offline
I’ll add pinchflat as an alternative with the same aim.
I use M-Discs to long term archival.
I don’t self-host it, I just use archive.org. That makes it available to others too.
It’s a single point of failure though.
Yes. This isn’t something you want your own machines to be doing if something else is already doing it.
But then who backs up the backups?
NOAA is at risk I think.
Everything is at risk.
