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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years (50 TB)of archival TV data (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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Last week it was reported that a data retention contractor PBS used went out of business, making it impossible for them to retrieve their data stored at document storage company Iron Mountain. Things are looking more positive now, though, as a judge ruled PBS to be the owners of the data, allowing them to retrieve it (or, just leave it there managed by another contractor I suppose). Still, 3-2-1, folks.

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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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