Dear James,
Perhaps it is time for us to admit that this is too large, expensive and
complex a problem for us to resolve without help from one
or more of the commercial data managers, such as Google or Amazon. I know
that dealing with ads is a nuisance, introducing
a loss of time for research,
Why not just upload it to proteindiffraction.org ? Or the SBGrid data
bank (https://data.sbgrid.org/) ? Or both for "redundancy" ?
Yes, I did once do some calculations on what it would take to preserve
data for tens of thousands of years, and the only proven storage medium
for that timescal