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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by mholt on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:35AM (#19418706)
This is why I wrote Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner - a tool to download all my content from essential cloud services (like Google Photos, etc) -- I don't like to trust the cloud as a master copy of my data.
Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by nitemice on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:15PM (#19426736)
I've been amassing a collection of scripts to basically do the same thing over the last couple of months, just running them all once a month with cron.

None of the services I've been backing up (Goodreads, Trakt, DeviantArt, Tumblr) are currently covered by Timeliner, but the extra twist of assembling all your data into a single timeline sounds kinda cool, so maybe it's worth contributing a few data sources.

Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by zimpenfish on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:51AM (#19419527)
I use(d) Perkeep (Camlistore) for this but the current version is broken wrt Pleroma (which might be Pleroma's fault) and Pinboard. I'll definitely give Timeliner (and possibly a Pinboard datasource) to fill in the gaps.
Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by hiei on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:13PM (#19422937)
This tool appears to be great! One question though, what does your storing solution look like?
Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by mholt on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:15PM (#19443663)
It's just a SQLite database, combined with a folder on the file system.
Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by hiei on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:46PM (#19456484)
Forgive me - I meant personal storage solutions.
Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by dredmorbius on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:16AM (#19419033)
Very interesting.

I've had a thought about a monthly "data preservation day" concept, (on the 11th, because: https://xkcd.com/1140/, and yes, I know: https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/)

A multiplatform archival tool would be useful.