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HowTo Data Hoard

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# Who is data hoarder?

Data hoarder archive large amounts of digital data (terrabytes) that might otherwise be lost, such as old video games, videos and websites.

## Why does they do it?

Spoiler

Usually you start becoming data hoarder when something that you expected to be online and what you can freely access (e.g. bought video games/series on PSStore/Netflix) becomes inaccessable due to various reasons:

  • Owner deletes data - outdated information, personal choice, hosting platform policy change
  • Platform policies - if content/account violates guidelines it gets removed (e.g. for hate speech, misinformation, or copyright infringement…)
  • Legal reason - content may be removed due to legal issues, such as DMCA takedown, court orders, political stuff
  • Technical issues - drive on server may die and sysadmin forgot to try make disaster recovery beforehand, cloud sync errors
  • Archiving - platform may decide that this content no longer relevant/needed - so they move it to more harder to access place

# HowTo Data Hoard

  1. Buy a lot of drives, raw 10TB would be a good start
    • put drives in your PC (not bad idea)
    • build/buy NAS
    • build Ceph cluster if you bald enough
  2. Use 3-2-1 backup strategy for important data
  3. Download everything that you’ve ever needed in life and never delete
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