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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

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Backups can be cloud / offsite…. Primary data should always be on prem

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