Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

Free account, indefinitely, to whoever needs it to store this data … including the storage vendor. Just email…

It’s entirely possible that Iron Mountain will be happy to turnover the data but needs a court judgement to do so without incurring more legal exposure. The article says the system belongs to OSS. If this is something like a colo arrangement then probably that is the only reasonable position to take. They can’t just go crack open a customer’s server and pull data out of it for whoever asserts a claim on it.

Ok, it sucks, losing data always sucks, but what ever happened to the 3-2-1 backup rule? even if your off site backup provider goes tits up, your on site backup is still there. If you don't want on site, a second off site provider, 50TB on backblaze would be an extra ~$350 per month (prob less if they were to commit to capacity instead of using their PAYG service)

>storing over 50TB of data I thought this would be like the backups I've heard broadcasters have of every broadcast they've ever had (I've heard of people being able to request 20 year old news clips before). But just 50TB of data? Duplicating that would have been cheap and trivial.

This might be the website: https://www.osstorage.com/ I wonder how they got the contract? Seems to be 4 people 'employed' at this company. Of which, one is retired, one is "Linkedin Member", one is a controller and the last one is a social media person: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelle-anderson-7aa250b5/ So, just the person to deposit checks and a social media person to get paid. Who exactly is left to work on storage infrastructure? https://www.linkedin.com/company/osstorage/people/