Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
Is there another way to store these records as a backup?
What about a way to store a backup via physical media, likely consisting of the most salient webpages?
A backup would require hundreds of terabytes even ignoring most minor pages.