Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
How would one go about making an offline copy of the repos? Asking for a friend.
Start from here https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup
Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors
The official repo is only about 80GB, I have an old copy from when I was running an airgapped system. Not sure about the AUR, it’s probably in the TBs range though.
The English Language Wikipedia probably wouldn’t be hard, or Debian Stable.
All of Debian’s packages might be a tad more expensive, though.
This might be a good place to start for Wikipedia;
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia
And the english with no pictures is even smaller
And you can use Kiwix to setup a locally hosted wikipedia using the data dumps
For wikipedia you’ll want to use Kiwix. A full backup of wikipedia is only like 100GB, and I think that includes pictures too.
