Description
A photo-sharing site whose 16 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2016.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 13 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
db1573701f6a584509744ea3cea28696f2973c467e64a30c32156ea5482d32cf- Last verified
- Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Ember Media, EmberSnap (2005–2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26655.