[qmmmur]

Pretty much everyone in a tech job could afford to buy 40TB of storage at home, or remotely and mirror the entire repo. I think that given this low barrier of entry if you can afford to help preserve the information then you can and probably should. Even if a small amount do it it's more points of recovery.

[int_19h]

Storage isn't hard, but downloading 40 Tb can be a problem. Are there any arrangements for physical distribution (of the "truck loaded with USB drives" variety)?

[asdefghyk]

Id say.... in the day .... anyone could afford to buy a single floppy disk and store files on it. But how many actually did and how many are actually recoverable. Lots probably got thrown out in intervening years.