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World鈥檚 most essential open-source code to be stored in Arctic vault

By Adam Vaughan

31 March 2020

Arctic source code vault

The backed-up code will be held inside GitHub鈥檚 vault in a聽disused mine

Github

A plan to expand a physical backup of the world鈥檚 most widely used open-source software held inside a mountain in the Arctic will go ahead this month, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

GitHub, an online software host聽owned by Microsoft, has already stored the equivalent of 10,000 folders聽of source code files in Coal Mine 3, a disused facility on聽the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.

This month, the company will hugely expand its existing storage by adding repositories that can hold…

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