Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data
2 months ago by artifex to c/datahoarder
Last week it was reported that a data retention contractor PBS used went out of business, making it impossible for them to retrieve their data stored at document storage company Iron Mountain. Things are looking more positive now, though, as a judge ruled PBS to be the owners of the data, allowing them to retrieve it (or, just leave it there managed by another contractor I suppose). Still, 3-2-1, folks.
Having worked with huge, slow organizations before, they probably had a mandate in place to outsource this kind of thing, and nobody in-house to evaluate the solution, so they picked an "expert" company who then went out of business.
Who's to say they didn't though? With the possible exception of not checking the IT company's financial health (and maybe they did but decided it wasn't a risk), the process worked as intended. They outsourced their storage and backups. The data is still stored and backed up. They were able to follow a remediation protocol (ie speaking to the judge) to regain access.
Piracy is a moral value.
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@lemmy.ml
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread
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Yeah for an organization like this, 3-2-1 should not have been difficult. 50TB sounds like a lot, but in the age of 20TB drives that's 3 drives worth of archiving. I don't expect them to have big tech levels of archiving ability, but it should be someone in IT's responsibility to make sure every quarter they do an rclone to a local drive setup. Hell I knew about 3-2-1 in college, anyone who works IT should have known.
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