beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareLordCrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI do volunteer work for nonprofits. Its amazing that normal people think we are swimming in cash… newsflash, we are not. The IT budget is nothing so alot of what i do is setup open source stuff to meet needs…think libreoffice erc. External storage for large backups is not on the table. And no one wants the reaponsibilty of shuffling external backup drives to and from.
minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoAnd IT staff is often a lot of young folks who are building their resume and make really dumb rookie decisions. I was once that rookie.
I do volunteer work for nonprofits. Its amazing that normal people think we are swimming in cash… newsflash, we are not.
The IT budget is nothing so alot of what i do is setup open source stuff to meet needs…think libreoffice erc.
External storage for large backups is not on the table. And no one wants the reaponsibilty of shuffling external backup drives to and from.
And IT staff is often a lot of young folks who are building their resume and make really dumb rookie decisions. I was once that rookie.