HACKER Q&A
📣 anenefan

Are any archivists here interested in a 196 g collection from vtda.org


I have created a torrent of a wget scrape of vtda.org's collection from end of last year. I didn't intend to scrape more than a 2 gig folder so as not to impact their server costs, but a rookie mistake and I forgot the -np switch - sometimes, one more thing to do before heading offline to bed / weekend is a mistake.

I can share 6 - 8 times and I'll be retiring the server account after that but at that point it should continue to seed despite a small number who are unable to.

It's intact as scraped except where the primary folder I renamed two html files to zhtml. mktorrent was used (other gui torrent clients could not do the job) and I named the torrent vtda not realising just how important the name is for some torrent clients when validating existing downloads.

If there's interest and proper to share via torrent and no objections, I will post the zipped torrent file tomorrow.