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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-15 at 21:35

These notes on what Flickr is considering for long term preservation is great.

On the way to 100 years of Flickr

https://www.flickr.org/report-archiving-the-living-environment/

This line from the report that they link to blew my mind:

"The migration of Flickr’s billions of images and 100 million+ user accounts to Amazon Web Services was accomplished in May 2019 and took under 24 hours, in a truly impressive feat of migration."

The report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X2a5EE3B_GDjAxdAV53zonUxoZWHz5Lo_Je7qW1Q-eU/edit?tab=t.0

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-15 at 21:41

If you are interested in this kind of stuff this is also another fascinating reading on the subject of long term preservation:

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

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