![]() The Sun StorEdge SAM-FS archiving capabilities include many features, such as those that you can use to specify that files be archived immediately, to specify that files never be archived, and to perform other tasks. Throughout this chapter, the term archive media is used to refer to the various cartridges or disk slices to which archive volumes are written. “If you thought your work was lost, you may be shocked to discover what’s been saved.Sun StorEdge SAM-FS Storage and Archive Management GuideĪrchiving is the process of copying a file from a Sun StorEdge SAM-FS file system to a volume that resides on a removable media cartridge or on a disk partition of another file system. “I encourage everyone to do an ego search,” he said. Scott said he found some old songs from the 1990s he thought he’d lost buried in the Archive thanks to DiscMaster. It was one of the first features he requested DiscMaster add, he said.ĭiscMaster is an incredible tool for archivists, historians, the curious, and people looking for half-remembered media or work they thought was lost to time. But he promised that anyone who reaches out to the archive can have that personal or sensitive information pulled down. “There’s only so much you can precheck with 93 million files and counting,” he said. Scott noted it’s possible that personal and private information could be buried in the CDs and inadvertently published. According to Scott, the plan is to use the program to sort through old AOL and FTP content sitting unsorted in the Archive as well. Depending on the size and type of the files on the CDs, the program can take several hours to sort the data and make it viewable online. “It takes a while for the program to grind over a CD-Rom,” Scott said. The program is slowly working its way through every CD and floppy disc in the Archive, expanding its database as it goes. “I knew this thing was great when they added the counter,” he said. We know this because of an old-school view counter that’s sitting on the front page. As of this writing, it’s been viewed around 84,000 times. On Tuesday it crashed with around 40,000 views. When Scott did a soft launch of DiscMaster on Sunday, the website had 70 views. “For the group that cares, they will care very deeply about it,” he said. Now there’s a tool that’s sorting through thousands of CDs, organizing the data, and making it viewable to a wide audience. Scott likes DiscMaster for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that it’s a blow against skeptics who’ve said that no one will ever look through all the archive's material and that it's too difficult to access. And anyone using the latest version of Chrome can view the same file without much trouble. Scott said that means someone on an old Commodore 64 with a browser can surf to DiscMaster and view old files without any hassle. Looking through old files requires you to identify these ancient formats and figure out a way to render them in a modern browser.ĭiscMaster does all that for you and it works in both modern and legacy browsers. In the early Wild West days of the online world there were no standardized file formats, no set way to render a video, no agreed upon audio codec, and no single way to render text. One of the most difficult parts of looking through old files is the formats. ![]() “It is generating easy to use programs that can preview the material easily.” “The program is pulling apart every archive,” he said. ![]() They’d been working on DiscMaster for 18 months when they finally put out the call for help. Scott said that DiscMaster is a labor of love from an Archive fan who made contact through Discord. ![]()
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