It should be obvious that storing all of your information on a site like this is not a good strategy. Archive.is is useful for preserving sites to guard against modifications by their publishers and you should keep using it, but by all means make local copies of all important information.
The problem with relying on that strategy is that while you will have a copy of your own data, you will not be able to access the information that the other thousands of researchers have saved on their personal computers. If the main archive goes down, it would be impossible to assemble all researchers' data into a new central repository.
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Empire_of_the_mind ago
It should be obvious that storing all of your information on a site like this is not a good strategy. Archive.is is useful for preserving sites to guard against modifications by their publishers and you should keep using it, but by all means make local copies of all important information.
lawexaminer ago
The problem with relying on that strategy is that while you will have a copy of your own data, you will not be able to access the information that the other thousands of researchers have saved on their personal computers. If the main archive goes down, it would be impossible to assemble all researchers' data into a new central repository.
As I noted earlier, a solution is mirrored backups of all researchers' data. For example, http://wikileaks.openanthropology.org/Mirrors.html
Empire_of_the_mind ago
You can fucking upload wherever you want with a local copy you realize. There are hundreds of sharing sites available.