I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?

Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by amluto on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:15AM (#18707674)

Easy: get a bunch of DVD drives and a ~1 Gbps uplink. 2000 4.7GB single layer DVDs in three working days is about 870Mbps. Upload them as you rip to S3 and then send a pull request!

https://github.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by reaperducer on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:30AM (#18707847)

Easy: get a bunch of DVD drives and a ~1 Gbps uplink.

Can you detail how one easily gets a 1 gigabit uplink installed temporarily in the National Archives?

I've had telcos drop fiber into the middle of fields in the middle of nowhere, so it's probably possible. But it feels like there's a lot of complicated bureaucracy to navigate, and the researcher OP is time-restricted.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by nathancahill on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:36AM (#18707903)

Sneaker shuttle the SSDs from the National Archives to your friends apartment with the uplink.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by amluto on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:41PM (#18710841)

sigh

No one got the joke. I’m suggesting that the DVD’s should be submitted as an AWS public dataset, because Amazon is the company that digitized them in the first place, and the content is apparently public domain.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by rconti on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:20AM (#18707738)

So the 3 days is for figuring out how to use git, then?

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by briffle on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:02PM (#18708817)

obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1597/

If anything is out of your few commands, just save work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by tracker1 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:53PM (#18709377)

I've, frankly, done that many times at this point... when your merge request gets too wonky, it's just easier. I do try to remember to squash, then rebase generally, though there are times I just forget or mess up.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by rconti on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:26PM (#18709695)

When in doubt, "how does the team here handle these conflicts? At my old job we just did <made up thing> to solve it, I've forgotten the process here."

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by halis on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:23AM (#18707764)

lmao

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