| Site | Source | Mirror |
| BitSavers | https://bitsavers.org/ | https://bitsavers.offsitebackup.online/ |
| Zimmers | https://zimmers.net/ | https://zimmers.offsitebackup.online/ |
| MG-1 | https://mg-1.uk/ | https://mg-1.offsitebackup.online/ |
Vintage computers are a passion and a community effort. At times valuable data may go offline for a number of reasons (we are all getting older after all) and hate to lose any valuable knowledge and/or data. Want to provide redundancy, bandwidth, and a strong backup. I keep 7 daily, 53 weekly, and 5 yearly backups of all data. I am not interested in running my own vintage site currently as there are a number of great ones out there and I know how much effort those dedicated admins have to put into keeping them up. But I am more than happy to provide mirroring for those sites.
If you have vintage files but don't run a website to share them with please provide them to a currently active vintage computer site like those above to archive.
I generally only do scheduled automated mirroring using read-only ftp/rsync/ssh/etc (no web scraping) so I can set and forget it other than montoring logs. I can pull on a schedule of your liking. Hourly, every 6 hours, daily, weekly, monthly, or whatever I can specify in a cron job.
Obviously will not mirror sites that contain currently copyrighted, pirated, mailware, etc and please do NOT ask for me to mirror you private/personal files.
If you have a Vintage site that could use another backup/mirror please let me know. james at offsite backup dot online
This site is being run from my home lab that is configured and maintained like a datacenter.
WAN: Uncapped symmetrical gigabit fiber through a COOP. Had AT&T fiber at the house but it was flaky at times so switched to the COOP's fiber. Yes I have two fiber pulls to the house (one of the perks of living in the great state of Tennessee. May light the AT&T fiber back up for redundancy at some point
Two physically separate locations.
House server room:
-- 2x WAN fiber ingress with 1 currently lit
-- 120 cores of Intel with 768gb ram in a 3 node cluster
-- 24x16tb hdds in a zfs z2 pool. 12 drives per vdev. 4x1tb ssd zfs mirrored for special. Yielding about 300tb of slow storage
-- 16x1tb ssds zfs mirrored/striped. 2 drives per vdev. Yielding about 7tb of fast storage
-- 2x Cisco Nexus 5k 48 port 10gb sfp+ switches (for HA)
Pool server room: (in my pool equipment room so dumping server heat into the pool, and 2ton split hvac for when needed)
-- 160 cores of AMD with 1280gb of ram in 5 node cluster.
-- 24x16tb hdds in a zfs z2 pool. 12 drives per vdev. Yielding about 300tb of slow storage. Redundant mirror that pulls from the house main storage. No open ports. Physical console access only.
-- Cisco Nexus 5k 48 port 10gb sfp+ switch
Backbone: 24x Multi-core hardened outdoor single mode fiber backbone in buried conduit between the two locations (approx 300 feet). Lit at 10gb per fiber using LACP so have 120gb of throughput.
UPS/Generator: Natual gas 24KVA generator. Dual Trip-lite ups in each server room