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Probably we need backup also some “only reblogs” blogs since some old stuff of already deleted blogs can be retrieved only via this “spamsblogs”. It will be sad if we lose it too.

@Lisboeta  

 
Watch out! Old accounts were 50 GB, but new accounts are 15+35 GB. The first 15 GB are “definitive”, but the last 35 GB are temporary, and they expire after 180 days.

@Mildgyth
 
Well, you can look for free cloud storage. Mega gives you 50 GB on one account. Not much but it extends a little. And 6 GB is a relatively large tumblr.

@The Smiling Pony
 
So, i tried to use TumblrThree, but it created a file with 6 GB worth of images; Since i’ll probaby do others as well and i only got 180GBs of free space, i can’t keep all that on my computer. how can i free up space for others without deleting it?

I keep getting errors for posts not being parsable on Tumblthree. What does that mean?

You can’t create a backup of someone else’s blog (Tumblr feature, apparently gives you the raws instead of cut up images). But going by how long it’s taking to create one for my blog that is explicitly nothing but reblogs, it works on reblogs. Can someone write a crawler that mirrors a specific blog entirely with forced reblogs then uses said feature to save it?

@twkr
 
Would you mind specifying, which list? “Upload resources” or 20k+ “List of all tumblr’s uploaded from onto derpi”?

I may not archive myself but I do have some more places that contain more art to be saved:  
http://littlenaughtypony.tumblr.com/  
http://blackjrxiii.tumblr.com/  
http://woozybits.tumblr.com/  
http://zziowin.tumblr.com/  
http://template93.tumblr.com/
 
I hope this is alright.

Still hasn’t deleted by account even though i’m using a NSFW avatar

Tumblr is sinking further and further from each passing day. I’ll admit however that my activity around Tumblr is basically nonexistent, hardly ever visit at all.
 
And even then, I can’t do much, I’m afraid.

I don’t follow MLP art on Tumblr so there’s not really much I could do. Sorry…

I tried a few but I don’t have a Tumblr account and I haven’t even been able to look at most of them in months. The mostly SFW accounts I have looked at, what I recognize as being gone or hidden I already can’t see. So unfortunately anything I archive now is going to fail. Or be missing I don’t even know what, which is worse than a recognized outright fail. So I’ll leave it to others who can hopefully get it done better. Just glad I uploaded some of Kushina13’s cutest images before this happened.

@Sollace  
Mine is TumblThree too until I mentioned other

@Sollace  
I think it’d be best to add the information in the “Claimed by” column, behind the claimant’s name, because one artist can be archived by several users, and they all have to fit in one row of the spreadsheet.
 
So for example I’d use furrypony (TumblThree)

@furrypony  
Got a request from the pony archive guys:
 
They are concerned that different tools will not archive content correctly and want redundancy. Can we update the spreadsheet to have columns to show which tools were used to save a blog?

Testing if tumblr still doesn’t flag and delete my post and I will update

Will try to do my part!

@twkr  
Should be enough for 4000 tumblrs, as long as there aren’t terrible outliers…

Started tumblr_backup script on my file share and fed it the whole tumblr blog list. It’s such a major PITA to make it run properly on FreeBSD >.< Have around 4tb free now. Not sure how much I’ll be able to dump but fingers crossed that it will be more or less enough.

Fortunately a large number of artists have their work catalogued here already, whether by their own means or by the archiving of others. By working together, hopefully the community can rescue as much as possible.
 
I will do what I can once I’m home this weekend.

@Sollace  
Press Ctrl+f for searching inside the documents
 
also I added them to the “not otherwise listed” sheet.

@furrypony  
Can you sort the blogs alphabetically by name? It’s really hard to find anything.Since I couldn’t find them, and have no way to esit the sheet on my phone, here are some blogs I know about:
 
ask-backy  
ask-soda-pop  
outofcontextmylittlepony  
sfs-animation
 
Will look at starting to archive as soon as I can.

@Tazool  
For completeness, I’d say just grab everything. We can’t trust Tumblr’s algorithm to not create false positives.

Can I request people uploading Tumblr posts they save during the exodus with “tumblr exodus 2018” or something, so we can distenguish what was here before and what was uploaded after?

I’ll try to help, I also have an old personal scrape of 20%cooler that I’ve been slowly checking to see if each image is uploaded