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MrMind

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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How many gigabytes of text is LW? I guess it'd probably be under a terabyte, and therefore, fairly cheap for even a lay person to backup.

The English Wikipedia is less than 10 Gigabyte.

Size of LW won't be an issue. The issue is rather having a friendly script that transfers the data.

15gjm11y

Back of envelope: suppose one 200-byte comment/post per minute every day for 5 years (I guess 200b is below mean length, 1/minute is above mean frequency, and I think LW is older than 5 years but younger than 10). That's 5 x 365 x 24 x 60 x 200 bytes. Round everything off to powers of 2 and 5: 5 x 400 x 25 x 50 x 200 = 500MB. So, less than a gigabyte, never mind a terabyte.