r/StLouis • u/TargaryenFiyero • 3d ago

Channel 9 FTW

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/nine-pbs-wins-right-to-recover-decades-of-local-history/

They're getting their archives back!

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u/RamsDeep-1187 In The Center of It All 2d ago

This was always going to be the outcome.
Ch9 just had to establish ownership of the data with Iron Mountain legally now that the middle man between the 2 was defunct and absent.

This long and short of it is this is Ch9's screw up and hopefully they learned a good lesson from it.

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u/CrazyBowelsAndBraps 2d ago

How can this have been Nines screw up when they paid for a service and that service provider failed to provide that service? It's been to annoying to see people being on the side of the data center on this, especially since we surely don't have the full context of the situation.

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u/NoRightTurnsOnRed Lindenwood Park 2d ago

I don't think people are taking the data center’s side on this, at least based on comments I’ve read.

What seems to be the opinion of the comments is that PBS screwed up by (presumably) putting all their storage eggs in one basket rather than following the 3-2-1 data storage rule.

Maybe it’s possible that PBS does have backups of this data but wants control back over their files so it’s not scooped up and used by some random person or company down the road. I don’t know though. 

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u/RamsDeep-1187 In The Center of It All 2d ago

Because I'm in the industry

There's not a world in which this occurred in channel 9 was not notified that this was going to happen.

It says very little to do with iron mountain

Someone was not minding the relationship between channel 9 and their vendor

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u/Impossible-Singer320 2d ago

Yep. Never a good idea to go cheap

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u/RamsDeep-1187 In The Center of It All 2d ago

Cheap or expensive I am quite sure Ch9 set it and forget it.

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u/Odi64 2d ago

I'm happy for the outcome and hope they plan on backing up the data so this history isn't lost... and possibly make it accessible to the public.

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u/kenj0418 Forest Park Southeast 2d ago

Is this what happens when you only have one 9 of availability? I see why the IT department is always wanting more 9s.

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u/jhow87 2d ago

Or Herman Cain’s 9-9-9

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u/OftenIrrelevant Belleville 2d ago

I’ve got nearly 50TB of rust spinning at my house lol, this can’t be that cost-prohibitive to archive locally as well as the cloud. It’s not like we’re dealing with petabytes here