Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct

> This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

Okay hang on now.. that strategy comes with its own risks. Risks that I imagine PBS was trying to avoid by using a third party that specializes in archival data storage. This is a silly takeaway.

Edit: I was too quick to comment. I think they are suggesting that the NAS should have been used in addition to the third party storage, which is actually a great takeaway.

Ok, it sucks, losing data always sucks, but what ever happened to the 3-2-1 backup rule? even if your off site backup provider goes tits up, your on site backup is still there.

If you don't want on site, a second off site provider, 50TB on backblaze would be an extra ~$350 per month (prob less if they were to commit to capacity instead of using their PAYG service)

> since 2019

At that point, why wouldn't you pick a major cloud vendor? This feels like more of a governance failure.

This might be the website: https://www.osstorage.com/

I wonder how they got the contract? Seems to be 4 people 'employed' at this company. Of which, one is retired, one is "Linkedin Member", one is a controller and the last one is a social media person: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelle-anderson-7aa250b5/

So, just the person to deposit checks and a social media person to get paid. Who exactly is left to work on storage infrastructure?

https://www.linkedin.com/company/osstorage/people/

This underscores the importance of the Internet Archive and people like Marion Stokes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes).

Isn't 50TB just 6 years of videos, in even the best case (1GB/h)?

Not PBS but an affiliate broadcaster and the data is not lost as in destroyed, but legally encumbered.

Full headline: 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

The channel’s attorney also reached out to Iron Mountain to inform the company of the pending case in Colorado; Iron Mountain finally admitted to holding the data. Iron Mountain initially agreed to turn over Nine PBS’ data, but it eventually backtracked and claimed that OSS owned the data it stored. Because of this, Nine PBS now has no choice but to sue Iron Mountain, too, to ensure the data is not deleted.

Title should be updated to reflect the fact that this is a single PBS station.