The Archiver's Nexus

Centralized Hub for Data Hoarding & Digital Preservation Resources.

Essential Hoarding & Archival Resources

The Internet Archive

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Visit Archive.org →

Anna's Archive

A shadow library search engine and centralized collection for open-source book and academic data.

Visit Archive →

ArchiveBox

A powerful, self-hosted web archiving tool to save snapshots of your favorite websites.

Project Homepage →

Wget

Non-interactive command-line utility for retrieving files from the Web using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

Get Wget →

HTTrack

An easy-to-use, multi-platform website copier/offline browser utility.

Download HTTrack →

qBittorrent

Free, open-source, and ad-free P2P client for efficient and private file sharing and archiving.

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Transmission

A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client that is highly popular on Linux and Mac.

Get Transmission →

Youtube-DL / YT-DLP

Command-line tools for downloading video and audio from YouTube and thousands of other sites.

YT-DLP Project →

Plex/Jellyfin Media Servers

Software solutions for organizing and streaming personal media collections.

Plex Jellyfin

r/DataHoarder Subreddit

The primary online community for data preservationists and hoarders.

Visit Community →

ZFS/Btrfs Filesystems

Advanced filesystems offering integrity, snapshots, and complex RAID configurations.

ZFS Info Btrfs Wiki

TrueNAS/FreeNAS

Leading network-attached storage (NAS) operating systems for data integrity and sharing.

Visit TrueNAS →

MergerFS/SnapRAID

Solutions for merging multiple hard drives into one large pool with parity/protection.

MergerFS SnapRAID

M-DISC/LTO Tape

Physical media solutions for ultra long-term, cold archival storage (100+ years).

M-DISC Info LTO Consortium

3-2-1 Backup Rule

A critical strategy: 3 copies of data, 2 on different media, 1 offsite.

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BorgBackup

A highly efficient, secure, and deduplicating backup program for local and remote data protection.

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Rclone

The command-line tool for managing files on cloud storage (S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.).

Get Rclone →