Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut off the station’s data access even though it still had 30 days to retrieve its data after the contract ended.
The station dug a little bit deeper when it discovered that the OSS website no longer existed and was listed as delinquent under the Colorado Secretary of State. It also discovered that OSS utilized Iron Mountain’s services, so it sent a demand letter to the latter to preserve its data and to “pay any reasonable costs associated with its demand.” At the time, Iron Mountain did not confirm or deny that it possessed Nine PBS’ data.
Cloud storage is just someone elses computer.
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I know a triplet who works in infrastructure. He would agree.
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This story is in regards to a single PBS station in Missouri and not the national organization, in case anyone missed that.
50 TB isn’t even all that much for your own NAS.
Well, it is now.
still cheaper then monthly payments on some garbage subscription that keeps increasing in costs and decreasing in services and having the extra high chance of theft because you’re giving everything to a criminal
It isn’t much by todays standards. But imagine even a just a tenth of this (accounting for lover quality back then) for the older half of that data by 2000’s storage costs.
Whether 50TB of lost data is “much” depends on what the data is, and whether it’s replaceable.
I think they were talking about PBS having an on site storage solution to mitigate the risk for this exact scenario.
Before the AI price hike, a 50TB NAS would be less than $5k.
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So the company pulled some shady shit and now the new company that bought out the old one doesn’t want to do anything. PBS needs to get a court order in to keep Iron Mountain from deleting that data while the court case is ongoing. They didn’t follow the data backup guidelines but they did take the appropriate steps to retrieve their data.
Do they really not have more than one backup?
