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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 (current.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332594/pbs-broadcaster-loses-access-to-50tb-of-data-comprising-70-years-of-tv-history-after-con

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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 103 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

According to the article, the data is not clearly lost. It's that their provider, OSS, had a subcontract with Iron Mountain to host the data storage. When OSS abruptly went defunct, PBS had no direct legal path to access the data in Iron Mountain, and no assurance Iron Mountain would preserve it. It filed the lawsuit to make sure the data was preserved and affirm a legal basis to recover the data.

So the headline's use of "loses access" is accurate but a little misleading. That said, it is a great argument for reliable data preservation.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago

Iron Mountain is aware of the situation so ideally they've flagged it to avoid the bad press of deleting it.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

also why you should have local and remote backups both.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 11 hours ago

Gotta follow the 3-2-1 rule

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Well, yes, but consider that others using the OSS service may not have the resources of PBS to file suit and litigate the issue, and they may well lose their data forever.

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 11 points 10 hours ago

The whole company is sketchy

https://web.archive.org/web/20250318131517/https://www.osstorage.com/cloudPricing

There is nothing open source, their address is the iron mountain denver datacenter address

That page looks like it was directly ripped from https://wasabi.com/pricing, including the "Ball appliance" which appears to be a Wasabi-only product. This reeks of "I know a guy who does storage" and it's just a few open source products bolted to another storage API with upcharging and a corporate website

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Good argument to not use the service.