West of the Moon is Down :(

[wallace_trust]

Fortunately, this beautiful fanfic site is backed up on the Internet Archive here.

What a vivid reminder of the cardinal rule of computing:  Always Have a Backup!!  :)

Comments

[claudia603]

huh, I had forgotten that some of my stories were there, too!

Thanks for this link. For some reason I couldn't get the story links to work on another link to it but this one seems to work!

How long do wayback links last? Do they ever just go away at some point?

[wallace_trust]

You're welcome! The Archive isn't very intuitive. It's easy to miss some of the links. When you're trying to find something in there, click on everything-- even the graphs have live links.

How long will it last? I doubt anybody knows, but I always treat 'precious' data like it won't be there tomorrow. All it takes to obliterate it is a virus or a power issue, or a natural disaster. I highly recommend downloading your stories and anything else that you treasure. For the most permanent storage, burn your stories to Blu-Ray.

Here's a very interesting article on how the Wayback folks are trying to preserve the Archive from 45 and his deplorables:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/29/13778188/internet-archive-of-canada-backup-trump-surveillance-censorship