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How do I get my shit back? Did Archive Team save it?

        We thought it would be there, or that they would give some warning and a way to retrieve data if they suddenly decided to gut everything. I just lost what amounts to 7 years of a diary, travel stories, reflections, memories of my (now dead) father, 7 years of my 20s just vanished, gone.. It's not upsetting, it's devastating. I'm grief stricken... silly me, thinking my content was mine.It's not even like a hard drive crash, a hard drive can be easily backed up but blogs were notoriously hard to, maybe purposely hard to. And now..all gone.

Archive Team was unable to rescue any Myspace blogs or videos. Even we cannot do anything about vast deletions of material at no notice. We're sorry.

Jim Youngkin has some hints for recovering your stuff. This uses Google's cache, so if you're reading this long after June 2013, it probably won't work, and if your blogs were friends-only it definitely won't work.

Cher-onically, the link to Jim Younkin's tips was 404, I replaced it with the wayback version.

Yesterday at least the main page was accessible in the internet archive. This morning,that page is no longer available. So, it looks like the new site just added a restrictive robots.txt? There were three crawls from yesterday in the archive that each had the new site with the black-background main page, so the site was being crawled frequently just now.

Or perhaps the archive itself has been pressured to make the content not accessible?

In any case, it is sad that domains that are let go can have new owners buy them and put up a robots.txt and the internet archive stops making available the old version of the site from the previous owner (probably not the case here, just a reminder of what can happen to our history).

Whatever the merits of the copyright claim, this does show how much we rely on archive.org to check what was going on and also how it is (politically) a single point of failure in that sense.

A different perspective on robots.txt:
http://www.archiveteam.org/ind...
"What this situation does, in fact, is cause many more problems than it solves - catastrophic failures on a website are ensured total destruction with the addition of ROBOTS.TXT. Modifications, poor choices in URL transition, and all other sorts of management work can lead to a loss of historically important and relevant data. Unchecked, and left alone, the ROBOTS.TXT file ensures no mirroring or reference for items that may have general use and meaning beyond the website's context.
Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically. A dumb spider or crawler will hit every URL linked, and if a site allows users to activate a link that causes resource hogging or otherwise deletes/adds data, then a ROBOTS.TXT exclusion makes perfect sense while you fix your broken and idiotic configuration.
Again, Archive Team interprets ROBOTS.TXT as damage and temporary madness, and works around it. Everyone should. If you don't want people to have your data, don't put it online."

> For the longest time, google people were pushing to code.google.com. Also the kernel contributions do not go to github.

Indeed. Don't forget BerliOS.de which shut down in 2011. Apparently they had 4,700+ open source projects.

http://www.archiveteam.org/ind...

They claim to be hosting over 4700 open source projects ...

http://archiveteam.org/index.p...

We need help in every form we can get.

http://archiveteam.org/index.p...

If it's working for him, then this makes sense.

What a non-story!

P.S. I assume that no words or names in his fantasy world have any accents or any characters not in the basic ASCII set. DOS WordStar is notably lacking in support for extended characters of any sort. (In fact DOS WordStar uses the high bits of characters for its own purposes, so it cannot ever work with anything beyond 7-bit ASCII.)

http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/WordStar

Theres http://www.archiveteam.org/ a collective effort to save web sites, i am downloading Geocities in a torrent http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities just to recover two crap pages i did long time ago, its like watching photos 20 years old :)

Theres http://www.archiveteam.org/ a collective effort to save web sites, i am downloading Geocities in a torrent http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities just to recover two crap pages i did long time ago, its like watching photos 20 years old :)

Yeah, Archive Team are on it. Could use help though, pop on IRC if you want to help!

Indeed, here are some ways to really help immortalize TPB:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay

All videos on Google Video will become private YouTube videos. Will this see the return of the Google Video archiving effort by Archive Team, covered in a previous Slashdot story?

If you have an io.com shell account, we would like to gift you a lifetime free rsync.net account for the purposes of backing up, and parking, the contents of that shell account.

I have never had an io.com shell, but between rsync and tar+gpg+ftp you should be able to quickly and easily dump the contents of your shell to an rsync.net account.

Just email info@rsync.net and we'll set this up for you. FWIW, this is a continuation of our efforts to support the work being done by Jason Scott, the "Archive Team" and the safeguarding of digital history, generally.

Jason Scott and the Archive Team spent a chunk of time and energy trying to archive all Geocities content a couple of months ago. I applaud their efforts; it's only after the dust has cleared that we'll know whether or how valuable any of that info is.

Perhaps because others were doing it. A number of independent projects tried to back up Geocities, and may have between them recovered most of the data.

* http://geociti.es/
* http://reocities.com/
* http://www.archiveteam.org/

The effort described here is quite separate from archive.org and the Wayback machine. See:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Who_We_Are