Thank you for your continuous support to Ragtag Archive over the years. Previously, we were able to accept archival requests for all channels submitted through Patreon, as we had effectively unlimited storage by making use of Google Workspace. However, due to Google's crackdown on abuse, our storage is now being offered by generous members of the community. As such, we no longer have the luxury...
2024-01-18 13:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostOur announcement of shutting down brought the attention of -Archivist from /r/DataHoarder, who has offered to provide up to 2 PB of storage for Ragtag Archive.
After some discussion we've decided to take up his generous storage offer to continue archiving.
Ragtag Archive will not be shutting down soon. The videos will stay, and we will continue to archive new videos. 2023-07-15 04:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ragtag Archive's videos, all ~1PB of it, are stored on Google Team Drives. I had no backups for it, since I don't have anywhere I can store 1 Petabyte for free, but I still wanted to have them just in case.
So a while ago I started making copies of the videos to a different Google Workspace account, abusing Service Workers to bypass Google Drive's upload quota. However, before the backups...
2022-06-21 10:46:23 +0000 UTC View Post