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Nine PBS in St. Louis filed a lawsuit against information management corporation Iron Mountain Data Centers July 28, seeking to recover over 50 terabytes of archival materials stored in one of the company’s Denver-based data centers.

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Far from the first people to get owned by Iron Mountain if I'm not mistaken. IIRC several major US record companies have had problems with it too.

[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Help, I'm bad at preserving media, should I store the PBS archives on magnetic tapes that will last like 30 years before they need to be recopied, or do I upload everything to a fly by night tech firm for probably 10x the cost?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

50 TB is the size of the TankieTube library, and I have all of it backed up on my home server in my bedroom closet. Amateurs.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Iron Mountain's only job is for their warehouses to catch fire extremely often

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just looked at their wikipedia entry and boy, you weren't kidding

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

They killed two firefighters here in Argentina some years ago

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)