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A desperately needed update
🕑 Added 2023-11-13 17:53:49 +0000 UTC
Believe it or not, but archiving content from a website where Artists constantly keep providing new content eats up a lot of space.
Having an entire server for just this one website was a bit overkill, so it was pulling double duty and served a few other sites I've been hosting that don't have anything to do with furarchiver.
One of those other sites is also quite storage space hungry. This site and furarchiver have grown to the point where storage space starts to get problematic, so effective immediately, I ordered an additional, identical server model. Most storage hungry things will be moved to that machine to return a lot of occupied space back to furarchiver to ensure it can continue to archive more content. This action will also result in a small performance increase, especially when loading images.
Thanks to all my patrons who help to keep this service alive, and happy archiving
Comments
Draconics Inc
The maximum size of a blu ray is 128 GB. This means with the current data amount of 14.5 TB I would need around 115 discs for a backup, which is not feasible. The only storage media I'm aware of that is intended for backup purposes that can handle this much size is an LTO-9 tape. These drives go for 3500$+, and tapes for around 100. You also need a SAS controller and appropriate software.
Noah Bangs
You also need to back up the archived galleries to BD-Rs in case of hard drive failure. Better safe than sorry.
Noah Bangs
Archiving is an essential thing, especially for fan art.
