Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha
I started with small, so you can
Good luck!
How on earth do you have 10TB of APK files? Console game collections are that size and they can get pretty damn big in size per game.
Genuinely curious, that sounds like an amazing collection.
Web scrapping, constantly updating and keeping old files, years and years of data collection
Wow thats beyond massive
No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.
If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.
The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.
There’s many ways to access obb, like use the built-in file manager.
Yea, absolutely worth it.
It’s worth it to hoard anything.
Except for CP of course.
Except for CP of course.
Yes, Officer this is the guy I was talking about.
Club Penguin content is 100% worth hoarding
Even CP worth hoarding… if you are one of those dudes working on filters to detect it
don’t ask woman about her age
don’t ask man about his salary
don’t ask ML specialist how they made model capable of detecting illegal content
I’d add:
don’t ask the sysadmin why they had to go testify in court
It’s never good.
Keep
Share them so no more get deleted
Update: I am fairly new to the nature of this sub and I realized I made a mistake. I should have asked if anyone here wants to hoard these files for me as I am already clearing my APK files. Tbf I havent touched these apks for almost 7+ years.
For additional context, I am not rich and I only have 2TB storage for data hoarding.
I’m more than willing to take on your hoard if you want to share. I’ve been meaning to get into APK cataloging.
Asking someone else to store them for you is not data hoarding, it’s being cheap.
For 8GB you can store on the cloud as well for free. Gdrive, filen, icedrive, koofr etc.
Ooh, so much better versions of games you have
Cool Archive! Find it all on apkmirror and if some apks aren’t available, put it on internet archive or on your website.
If you don’t want it upload it somewhere and share it, every collection has worth.
How do you keep up with updates?
Upload to the Internet Archive and share the link.
if you enjoy hoarding stuff like this then it’s worth it. 8GB of space for such a massive archive is really not that much, so it’s not like it is costing you anything to archive them.
If you don’t want to hold on to these files for whatever reason, upload them somewhere such as archive.org then other people can hoard them if they choose to do so. I bet there is something in there that someone has been looking for, and I guess that’s what hoarding data is all about, making sure that media, in this case games, don’t get lost to time like many have.
Would you be willing to share this? Torrent or any method that is easy for you?
8 gigs isn’t really alot so I would say it’s worth it tbh
Also lots of older data is getting way harder to find now, so it might be useful for you in the future too