Archive.org encourages everyone to upload raw video files as well. They will transcode into various formats and resolutions automagically.
This would also solve the issue of losing raw data year after year. I thought I discussed this with Holger during DebConf but I may be wrong... Michel, do you already have ftp credentials? Is there a plan of who uploads what? Richard PS: While archive.org aligns better with us than amazon, Glacier is the perfect place for backups of this kind... Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity. On Oct 16, 2013 9:56 PM, "Michel Gallant" <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I heard back from archive.org and they would be more than happy to > host a mirror of our videos. They said they can either give us an FTP or > mail us a hard drive. Who would be uploading this and which method do you > prefer? > > Original message below: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jason Scott <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:35 PM > Subject: Re: Mirror needed for Debconf videos > To: Michel Gallant <[email protected]> > > > Michel, I'm more than happy to help host this material on archive.org. I > can give you an FTP site to upload the videos and we can go about making a > collection. You'll be able to hotlink and embed videos with ease. Sound > good? (800gb + 100gb every year is no issue whatsoever). > > If bandwidth to us is a problem, we can arrange for a hard drive to be > mailed. Up to you, both work for me. > > > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Michel Gallant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a contact at archive.org and have reached out to him. >> On Oct 16, 2013 12:55 PM, "Victor Martinez" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Holger Levsen >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2013, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >>>> > My hosting plan says "space:unlimited". I am currently using >>>> > ~100GB. And... At some point I saw I was below 10% of the allowed >>>> > quota. >>>> >>>> interesting math were they redefine "unlimited" :-) >>>> >>>> >>> Probably that 10% was before they push anyone to the unlimited plan... >>> it's a worth shoot to try to host the mirror... >>> >>> > Of course, as it's not me pushing the bytes, it won't hurt me >>>> > to sync up a full mirror and see if any red flags come up. But I will >>>> > only do it if you (as the visible head of the video team — maybe >>>> > because of the funny hair?) give me an OK. >>>> >>>> yes, please try. currently we have no full public mirror... >>>> >>>> As some one has suggested amazon s3, I remembered that Dreamhost has >>> been working on Ceph [1] as they new product for storage DreamObjects [2] I >>> made a quick math and hosting on rsync.net 1TB annually cost 1800USD >>> and doing on DreamObjects would cost 648USD also contact kernel.org & >>> archive.org would be ideally someone knows staff there? >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> [1] http://ceph.com/ >>> [2] http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The only constant is the change >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Debconf-video mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-video mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video > >
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