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PBS loses 50TB of data; 70 years of TV history after cloud vendor defunct

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PBS loses 50TB of data; 70 years of TV history after cloud vendor defunct

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 3 months ago

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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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PBS headquarters is not located in Missouri, where the affected station is.
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  Nine PBS is the affected station.

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