Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.

Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer

Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

How to Set Up Your Own NAS Server for Backups and Content Streaming

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-set-up-nas-server/

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/

#HackerNews #FlashMedia #Longevity #Testing #DataHoarding #Technology #StorageTesting #6YearsLater

Yet another reason to not enable passkeys anywhere.

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/

TL;DR - If an idiot website uses your passkey to encrypt your data, losing/deleting the passkey will almost certainly mean losing your data.

Of course we should all be backing up our stuff locally instead of trusting cloud services, especially for irreplaceable things like pictures and movies, but lets be real, the average user doesn't.

#dataloss #passkey #passkey_security #datahoarding

So, all this #DataHoarding I've been up to has me wondering:

Are tape backups still a thing?

Like, if you want to store a petabyte or so of data and you don't care about random access, it seems like that'd be an economical way to do it. Or does everyone just store their stuff "in the cloud" now?