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.
  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    And here’s why public archival is so important.

    I would not be surprised if whatever person in charge of the archive, if there is/was one, has advocated for a 3-2-1 solution. But the hoops were too much to get through to have a fucking back up system beyond a relying on random storage company. That or it was someone who’s been in the job sense they converted the tapes to digital and has just been coasting along uploading stuff for the past 20 years.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Well… if it’s in a cloud provider with 3 copies locally and 3 more geo-redundant why would we need that?

      You’re right, but it is an easy fallacy to fall into.