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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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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

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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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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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    Piracy is media preservation

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        Iirc is “The Owl House”

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      I plead the fifth on that. But how come no backup on this. I am pretty sure they could got at least 50 people to get 1 tb hard drives so their data wouldn’t go this route. And probably more since PBS shaped whole generations of kids and adults into better people.

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        Heck its pbs. They should have publically archived it so anyone could keep a copy. At least the old stuff.

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        15x8TB drives gives you about 72TB in raidz2, for about £4k in disks, add a server for say £2k

        So by not spending £6k they lost everything, they spent $19million on IT in 2025

        Someone fucked up

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          you forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups

          changes everything on that $19M budget!

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            That’s budget for the whole network, this happened to a small local station.

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          A tiny PBS office in St Louis has a $19 million/year IT budget? I really doubt that.

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            I may have taken the whole PBS accounts, I’m not from the US

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