I like running the full `archive:create` to help us be _confident_ we've got the whole darn thing, but it takes multiple days to run on my machine and its slow HDD, which… I'm willing to do _sometimes_, but not frequently.
But if we had a version of the script that ran faster, and only on URLs we still _need_, we could run that more regularly and keep our live archive relatively up-to-date. This would enable us to build reliable fallback infra for when images.neopets.com isn't responding (like today lol)!
Anyway, I stopped early in this process because images.neopets.com is bad today, which means I can't really run updates today, lol :p but the delta-ing stuff seems to work, and takes closer to 30min to get the full state from the live archive, which is, y'know, still slow, but will make for a MUCH faster process than multiple days, lol
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