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RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 days agoI did already, tried the XOWA client to run a local copy on my PC. Wasn’t as easy as I hoped but it worked.
Planning to get a couple of USBs stashed away with full copies of Wikipedia and the reader app for knowledge security. You can fit the whole thing with a working installation onto a 128GB USB or less. My install dir was about 69GB total.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 2 days ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s a good point, that is possible but not absolutely certain. I could probably get a smaller version of the wikipedia dump to fit on a BD-R disc but not 69GB.
USB drive or SD card archival might require a 6-month maintenance routine of inserting into a computer and verifying the files are still present etc.
jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
additionally not everyone considers to backup the actual software used to compress/decompress the data. that isn’t permanent either and could disappear same as wikipedia, rendering such backups useless.
granted, it’s like, 10000x less likely than the already unlikely event of wikipedia being raptured. but the datahoarder mindset is better safe than sorry…