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From the article: It's not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for

by basch 2mo ago

From the article: It's not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for a major organization, as one can easily purchase a six-bay NAS on Amazon and populate it with the best HDDs. This also goes against the 3-2-1 backup rule, which says you should keep three copies of your files stored in two different mediums, with one of them running offsite. Hopefully Nine PBS will implement a better backup system once it regains access to its data.

kmeisthax 2mo ago
A different article about this (which I believe you're quoting) states Nine PBS has about 50TB in limbo, which actually smacks me as kind of small. I had written up an entire screed about the problems with archival[0] and how Hollywood is getting hit with huge costs to maintain LTO tape libraries; because when you get to the PB scale doing this correctly becomes nontrivial and outsourcing to a specialist is genuinely a safer bet. I genuinely have more data to lose than they do. At 50TB, they probably could have Just™ written three copies of the data to a pile of disks, sent one copy off to Iron Mountain, and kept the other two copies unplugged in a safe. I can understand the DIY solution might not be allowed for insurance reasons, but it's something so cheap they probably could have done both. Unless OSS was just taking them for a ride on storage, which... well, actually that seems pretty likely. [0] To put it simply, there is no good medium for the archival of digital information. HDDs are not shelf-stable. Flash is even less shelf-stable than disk. Sony is actively trying to kill optical. LTO is shelf-stable, but good luck buying known-good or new drives for old formats. The only option is periodic cloning and verification of offline disks, or keeping all your disks online, which is the NAS solution.

by basch 2mo ago

kmeisthax 2mo ago

A different article about this (which I believe you're quoting) states Nine PBS has about 50TB in limbo, which actually smacks me as kind of small. I had written up an entire screed about the problems with archival[0] and how Hollywood is getting hit with huge costs to maintain LTO tape libraries; because when you get to the PB scale doing this correctly becomes nontrivial and outsourcing to a specialist is genuinely a safer bet. I genuinely have more data to lose than they do. At 50TB, they probably could have Just™ written three copies of the data to a pile of disks, sent one copy off to Iron Mountain, and kept the other two copies unplugged in a safe. I can understand the DIY solution might not be allowed for insurance reasons, but it's something so cheap they probably could have done both. Unless OSS was just taking them for a ride on storage, which... well, actually that seems pretty likely. [0] To put it simply, there is no good medium for the archival of digital information. HDDs are not shelf-stable. Flash is even less shelf-stable than disk. Sony is actively trying to kill optical. LTO is shelf-stable, but good luck buying known-good or new drives for old formats. The only option is periodic cloning and verification of offline disks, or keeping all your disks online, which is the NAS solution.