Yeah, the entire compressed thing is only ~40GB if you exclude media like photos, audio files, videos, etc, so it’s surprisingly easy to keep a local backup. You need some specialized software to be able to read the compressed data without fully unzipping it, but the software is FOSS so anyone can use it. Even if you include images, the file is only like 150GB, which is easy for anyone with a NAS.
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Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoYa tonight Im gonna start torrenting one of the backups. I don’t normally seed more than 2x ratio but I think this one will be set to trickle seed and stay on for at least 10x
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
please do if you have the storage space and bandwith
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
40G if you don’t download pics. Closer to 100G with pics
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ma let one of you who has 40 spare gigs of HDD space do it
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia