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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It has been pointed out that the IT person listed is making over $150k a year. For that amount of money I'd think it's reasonable to expect they'd know better.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Very tricky situation for both sides, I can see why a court order was necessary.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Less than 1tb a year for a TV archive sounds sus.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Piracy is a moral value.

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