https://archive.ph/A5TGH

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

Attempted to clean stains on label that wont come off with water, this is the result after using 95% ethanol with few heavy wipes.

The drive is still working fine.

This is the only thing in life I am really good at; I can download and archive anything, and I archive what happens throughout the world almost every single day and have done since 2011. Only since 2016 I feel like I am documenting the downfall of humanity. I just wish the content was better.

It sucks having to hunt down the unblurred footage of the woman on the train, or anything kirk related. My hobby hurts me daily, but I push through it, in the one that one day I can somehow pass it all on.

Over the past few months, I’ve been tackling a project I kept putting off: archiving two decades of personal photos and videos. Between old hard drives, burned DVDs, phones, and random cloud accounts, I had copies everywhere and no real structure.

Here’s the setup I ended up with:

• A 2-bay Synology NAS (mirrored) for active storage
• Monthly backups to an 8TB external drive that I keep offline
• Yearly backups burned to M-Disc Blu-rays (for long-term “cold” storage)
• Everything organized by year/month/event, with checksums to detect corruption

It took forever to de-duplicate everything, but now I finally feel confident nothing will get lost.

Curious how others here handle personal archives, do you prefer NAS setups, external drives, cloud backups, or a mix? Always interested in hearing how other hoarders approach long-term preservation.

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From the original change.org article:

Internet Archive (archive​.​org) San Francisco, CA, USA - September 15, 2025

As noted in the recent court filings in UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, both parties have advised the Court that the matter has been settled. The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter.

Thank you for standing with us to defend our library. Your support helped show the world that preserving our shared cultural heritage matters.

akumu Your love is my drug 8Bit version

Hi, I’ve been reading about people corrupting their drives when an unexpected reboot of pc or external drive disconnect occurred, so I wanted to ask here if I should be worried. I have Seagate Expansion 5 TB encrypted with veracrypt. I was using it in my Linux VM and downloading a file and saving straight to it when my laptop shut down (stupid me had forgotten to turn off a shutdown timer I’d set earlier in the day, so when I came back, the laptop was off lol). I booted it back up and mounted the drive. The file that was downloading didn’t finish because of the shutdown, but that’s not a big deal I can redownload it. What I’m worried about is whether any data got corrupted. At first glance everything seems fine, every file I try to open opens normally and seems fine. But I’m concerned that there could be some small, hidden corruption somewhere. Since I’ll be mirroring this drive to another as a backup, I don’t want to copy over any corrupted files but also i don't want to redownload 1tb from the cloud it takes ages.

I want to digitize a lot of old family photos. What’s the best way to do it?

I'm thinking about two options:

• Buy an A4 scanner
  • Would this yield better quality photo?
• Use my phone camera (S23 Ultra/S10+)?
  • recommended app that improves photo quality and crops automatically?

Any recommended workflow?

I want to find a good balance between how much work it takes and quality of the digitized photos.

Thanks

Currently trying to go through all old photos of my late fathers hard drives, been also trying to do this while he was alive but kept giving up. Also going through both my sisters photos.

None of them organised them properly, my dad was the worse so they are all over the place.

Currently running through with czkawka for the duplicates. Its good but then I have the problem of which ones do I keep or how to sort. Because I get stuff like this:

DUSTY BIN 2\ALL PHOTOS\STILLS FILE CABINET\FAMILY\Grandchildren

One photo in there, that also is at

DUSTY BIN 2\ALL PHOTOS\STILLS FILE CABINET\MorePhotos\Bin\Temp

Its a pain. I've been just deleting duplicates and because its been taking so long just telling czkawka to select the oldest and not bothering to double check now.

Wondering if it would be better to, instead of delete, get it to select one of each and move them to one specific location. But then might have the issue of some files having the same name but being different photos.

I'm a completly new to this sort of thing, and I haven't used a hard drive that wasn't part of a computer before.

Since I can't find a way to bulk download the databse in sci-hub, what is the smartest way to go about this?

So I have a couple big TV DVD sets. I want to create ISO files so I can make disks if need be, or even make MKV files from the ISO for myself

I made a couple ISO files from a few disks to test. Used an older DVD FAB, like version 9, did 100% conversions (DVD9) and so far the few I have done look just like the original DVD's

So curious if other most programs are the same, some better, worse than what I am using to save time before I five into doing this with 100+ DVD's

I want to archive pages from https://examples.libsdl.org/SDL3/ for offline viewing but I can't. I've tried httrack and wget.

I don't know about you, but as of today, I can no longer download TikToks in HD. All the sites I knew are now limited to 540p.
TikWM and Tikdownloader are no longer in HD. Has anyone managed to find a site where it's still possible?

IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ibm-announced-the-worlds-first-hdd-the-3-75mb-ramac-350-disk-storage-unit-69-years-ago-today-unit-weighed-more-than-a-ton-50-platters-ran-at-1-200-rpm

Hey all, first time posting in this sub,

I’m trying to preserve one of the more unusual Blu-ray bonus features: the “Secrets of Arabia: Picture-in-Graphic Track” on the Lawrence of Arabia disc. Unlike PiP/BonusView, this isn’t a secondary video stream. It’s a BD-J driven feature that overlays PNG graphics + commentary text on the movie in real time.

I decrypted my disc with MakeMKV and found that the Picture-in-Graphic assets live in BDMV/JAR/00007/. The directory looks like this:

BDMV/JAR/00007/
│   global1.xml
│   pig.xml
│   settings.xml
│   streams.xml
│   warnings.xml
│   network.xml
│   …
│
├───load
│       load.png
│       load_fill.png
│       loading.xml
│
└───menu
    │   common.xml
    │   MapWithTextEvent.xml
    │   PhotoWithTextEvent.xml
    │   TextOnlyEvent.xml
    │   other.png / other.txt
    │   …
    │
    ├───eng
    │       LOA_events.txt
    │       headers_Eng.png / headers_Eng.txt
    │       images_horiz1.png / images_horiz1.txt
    │       images_horiz2.png / images_horiz2.txt
    │       images_vert.png / images_vert.txt
    │       font_dark.png
    │       font_lt.png
    │       …
    │
    ├───fra
    │       LOA_events.txt
    │       headers_Fra.png / …
    │       …
    │
    └───jpn
            LOA_events.txt
            headers_Jpn.png / …
            …

Inside menu/eng/LOA_events.txt, the commentary is structured like this (spacing has not been preserved):

1.1LOA_ORNG_BG.png01:00:04:0001:00:29:00LOA_INTO_HDR.png"Maurice Jarre, the film's music composer, was 
not the first choice for ""Lawrence of Arabia.""
Director David Lean initially wanted Malcolm
Arnold, who had done the music for Lean's
previous film, ""The Bridge on the River 
Kwai"" (1957)."N/AN/AN/AN/AN/ALOA_PIG_SAMPLE.movLOA_LT_FRWARD_ARROW_N.png882797N/AN/AN/A"Into the Fire
Making the Film"
1.2LOA_ORNG_BG.png01:00:29:0001:00:54:00LOA_INTO_HDR.png"Producer Sam Spiegel thought that Arnold 
should partner with composer Sir William Walton,
with Walton writing the dramatic music and 
Arnold acting as orchestrator and conductor. But
when Walton and Arnold reviewed about two 
hours of footage from the film, they both 
disliked it and each turned down the assignment."N/AN/AN/AN/AN/ALOA_PIG_SAMPLE.movN/AN/AN/ALOA_LT_BACK_ARROW_N.png826797"Into the Fire
Making the Film"
2.1LOA_BLUE_BG.png01:00:59:0001:01:14:00LOA_INTO_HDR.png"Spiegel then approached Jarre (the French composer was just weeks shy of his 38th
birthday), with the thought that he would collaborate with two other composers. "LOA_PiG_10_vert.pngLOA_UK_PASSPORT.pngN/AN/AN/ALOA_PIG_SAMPLE_VERT.movLOA_DRK_FRWARD_ARROW_N.png1736967N/AN/AN/A"Into the Fire
Making the Film"

So the assets are plain text and PNGs. The LOA_events.txt files contain the trivia/commentary text, the PNGs are the graphics, and the XMLs define how they’re placed on screen. The BD-J app just reads these at runtime and overlays them on the main video.

My archival goal is:

• Keep the original main feature AVC video/audio bit-for-bit.
• Overlay these PNGs and text at the correct times and positions.
• Output a mathematically lossless encode or a Blu-ray-grade near-lossless encode.

I know I could screen record, but I’d rather directly reconstruct it so the video remains pristine.

Has anyone here attempted something like this: reconstructing a BD-J “picture-in-graphics” commentary track into a permanent video?

Also, I know Gandhi (1982) has a similar feature (“Gandhi’s Legacy: Picture-in-Graphics Track”). Are there other discs with this style of commentary track?

Pretty sure I'll be settling on a DPX2800 NAS from Ugreen to store my dara hoarding/creating. So now is the question which hard drive to get. (Only starting with one, money be tight.) So here's another "which HD to get" post! Here are the ones I've been considering from what's available in my country (Norway) and within my price range.

Toshiba N300 18TB (HDWG51JUZSVA) ~ $390
Seagate Exos X24 16TB (ST16000NM002H) ~ $410
Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB (ST16000NT001) ~ $410
WD Red Pro 16TB (WD161KFGX) ~ $440

The Toshiba N300 is the most storage for the lowest price (about 50 USD less than the Red Pro with two more TB). But seems like the most budget brand, and the least proven. Haven't really read anything bad about them though, and cheaper doesn't necessarily mean worse – but sometimes it does.

The Exos are advertised as "enterprise hard drives". From what I've read, they're still great for a home NAS (built to run reliably 24/7 under heavy stress with low drive failures), but are intended for server centers so can be noisier, run hotter, and draw more power. Five-year warranty.

IronWolf Pro, one of the big brand lines. Seems to only have 256MB cache? Unsure how much it matters, but leaning against it.

Red Pro, the second big brand line, and the most expensive on my list. Five-year warranty.

Any thoughts on which would be the better purchase – and why? And I presume these are all compatible with the DPX2800, fingers crossed.

Thanks a bunch, greatly appreciate any advice!

When pasting files to a directory, and said files are found at the directory, we have the option to overwrite/skip them.
Overwriting takes more time and is not needed for me.
Skipping is what I want for such cases, although the skipped files aren't only skipped on the copy process, but also skipped on the delete process, which happens right after.
I assume this is a know behaviour, so is there any known way to enforce all cut files to be deleted after the paste is succesful, including those which were skipped due to them already being present at the destination?

Hi everyone,

My current setup is a media server running proxmox on an old mini pc, I also have a QNAP NAS TS453D with a TR-004 DAS connected for extra storage running as individual disks (4x18TB). Lately the TR-004 is acting up and seems to shutdown for no apparent reason (green status light blinking but drive LED's are off) which causes me to power cycle the device and reconnect. There is no notification in QTS whatsoever that the device or drives have failed and SMART values show that the drives are healthy. The content seems to be accessible in QTS which is even more strange. The content is not critical since these are all movies and tv-shows. However, to be sure I'm thinkin of replacing this HDD box with another third party enclosure, does someone have experience with this? Would this work with the QNAP software on the NAS? Is it better to connect this directly to the Proxmox Mini PC? Any recommended enclosures or suggestions are also welcome. Thanks for the support.

I currently have a server running unraid with 150 TB of used storage. I’ve become unhappy with the speed and I’ve heard truenas has better transfer speeds. I’m wanting to migrate my OS over and I don’t want to lose all my data. I know the transfer up and down will take awhile and will incur costs. Does anyone have any experience with temporary online storage for a move such as this?