An update!

[akamine_chan]

Hello everyone!

We're starting to get down to some of the more complex parts of restoring the Audiofic Archive, so here's an update!

So, here is an overview of what's going to happen:

• Backups (from both physical HDs and cloud-based storage) will be completed.
  
• An internal list of all podfic we should have files for will be compared to a list of the files we actually have, generating a 'missing' list.
  
• Once we know what is missing, we can crowd source the missing files.
  

Until we know the extent of the missing files, there is no reason to panic. I personally feel that the missing list isn't going to be very long, and I'm confident that we'll be able to track down copies of the missing podfic, even ones from obscure fandoms, fairly easily.

So please, no panicking.

Keep in mind that this is not going to be a quick process; we have to work within the limits of our hardware, our software, our bandwidth, and the time that volunteers have to work on restoring the Archive.

Thank you for your continued patience during this difficult time. We did not expect the Archive to go down the way it did, and we didn't expect it to take as long to start getting things resolved.