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Seems odd to go to all this effort of making an entire second copy, only to put it just over the border into a country with not too dissimilar laws. As another commenter said, would've been better to go with Iceland or something.

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A backup of the archive has been hosted at Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt since 2002 [0] and is accessible at [1]. I'm not sure what the state of that project is but I guess it's not a "live" copy, the first link here describes an incremental upgrade over the years.

Agreed that Iceland would be a nice international headquarters.

[0] http://www.bibalex.org/en/project/details?documentid=283

[1] http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/

I will note that Alexandria backup has gotten a tad out of sync. No fault of theirs, the data set just got too large to manage.

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