Mastodawn

Recently I had the idea to mirror all the uploads (releases and screenshot images) on the #Luanti ContentDB onto the #InternetArchive, putting them all into an item that gets incrementally updated. It's a quite big dataset (72 GiB currently) so having it archived there and accessible on a per-file basis would be nice.

I began uploading to it yesterday and let it run for the day, got a significant chunk of the files uploaded but now when I checked back today the item had been automatically deleted for containing malware.

...guess we're restarting it.

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Kat the Leopardess 14h ago

@ROllerozxa Yeah. The Contentdb outage the other day was definitely a reminder.

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ROllerozxa 14h ago

@Catwoman69y2k Yeah that was the motivation for trying to do this!

Just dumping the full uploads dataset may not be very useful since they have non-descriptive random filenames, but if someone were to host a mirror of the ContentDB API with just the package metadata, they could then redirect to archive.org for the release zips. Maybe slow, but would work in case of emergency.

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Kat the Leopardess

@ROllerozxa I eill say that Im glad that Luanti (and any if the games on there) are not attached to the kind of authentication system that Microsoft uses. I was able to play all the VoxeLibre I wanted to during the ContentDB outage.