
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
What I did
Add support for file deletes & renames while running
alpha watch.This approach mimics Tilt's behavior1:
statthe path on hostrmfrom containerBy handling things this way, we're always syncing based on the true state, regardless of what's happened in the interim. For example, a common pattern in POSIX tools is to create a file and then rename it over an existing file. Based on timing, this could be a sync, delete, sync (every file gets seen & processed) OR a delete, sync (by the the time we process the event, the "temp" file is already gone, so we just delete it from the container, where it never existed, but that's fine since we deletes are idempotent thanks to the
-fflag onrm).Additionally, when syncing, if the
statcall shows it's for a directory, we ignore it. Otherwise, duplicate, nested copies of the entire path could get synced in. (On some OSes, an event for the directory gets dispatched when a file inside of it is modified. In practice, I think we might want this pushed further down in the watching code, but since we're alreadystating the paths here now, it's a good place to handle it.)Lastly, there's some very light changes to the text when it does a full rebuild that will list out the (merged) set of paths that triggered it. We can continue to improve the output, but this is really helpful for understanding why it's rebuilding.
Related issue
JIRA: ENV-139
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Footnotes
https://github.com/tilt-dev/tilt/blob/db7f887b0658ed042069dc0ff4cb266fe0596c23/internal/controllers/core/liveupdate/reconciler.go#L911 ↩