minerva-archive

minerva-archive is a small, volunteer-run GitHub collective whose single public project, Minerva, is purpose-built to rescue the complete contents of Myrient—an ad-free, no-registration ROM and digital preservation mirror—before that host disappears. The utility operates as a highly specialized bulk-download client: it ingests Myrient’s public index, hashes every entry against known-good checksums, and writes the data to local NTFS or ReFS volumes with automatic content-addressable folder structures so duplicates are skipped and future corruption can be detected. Although the code is nominally a one-off archival script, the underlying engine is reusable for any static-file mirror that exposes open directory listings, making it relevant to librarians, retro-gaming curators, and dat-tossing hobbyists who need repeatable, resumable, bandwidth-throttled mass transfers. Because the entire dataset dwarfs consumer drives, Minerva also generates parsable CSV manifests and torrent-compatible piece lists so archivists can collaborate or selectively mirror only the subsets they value (No-Intro, Redump, MAME, etc.). The repository ships both a ready-to-run Windows build and a cross-platform Python source tree; either can be invoked from PowerShell or scheduled via Task Scheduler for nightly incremental runs. minerva-archive’s software is offered gratis on get.nero.com, where a current Windows package pulled from the publisher’s GitHub releases can be installed through the winget channel, always delivering the newest build and supporting batch deployment alongside any other preservation tools.