Are you sure that it is as secure as you thought? PBS station loses 50 terabytes with 70 years of archival footage after data-storage company shuts down | Not the Bee
Maybe you should review the companies you are hiring. And maybe you should review what they are actually doing for you.
Yeah, maybe tossing all of the physical media and using the cloud to store your memories wasn't the best move?
Especially if you've got 70 years of archival footage that could disappear at the drop of a hat, as this St. Louis PBS station has learned.
They stored those 50 terabytes of data with a company that went out of business. Now they don't have the data.
There is a silver lining.
As it turns out, however, OSS used another data company, Iron Mountain, to host the archive.
Iron Mountain is still in business, but since its client was OSS, it is refusing to hand over the files.
The PBS station is now suing.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just hire Iron Mountain in the first place? Maybe this other company, Open Source Storage (OSS), offered some extra services. Still it would be nice to review the financial health of companies you are trusting with important data.
The hat tip goes to Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog and “This Was PBS.”
You should backup your data. You should have multiple backups of your data. You should have multiple rotating or rolling backups of your data. You should have multiple rotating or rolling backups of your data saved to different types of backup media. Ideally, you should have multiple rolling or rotating backups of your data saved to different types of backup media including off-site backups.
Evidently, a PBS station didn’t follow any of these rules.
Did someone mention Louis Rossmann?
Is there a Louis Rossmann rant on the topic?
Yes. Yes there is.
PBS loses 70 yrs of data: my perspective as a privacy advocate, business owner, & data recovery tech. Louis R. is not generally safe for work, due to F-bombs. But Louis R. knows what he is doing, and you should pay attention to his recommendations.
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