PBS Station’s 50TB Archive Hangs in Balance as Judge Forces Iron Mountain’s Hand

PBS Station’s 50TB Archive Hangs in Balance as Judge Forces Iron Mountain’s Hand

A St. Louis public television station came within striking distance of permanent loss. More than 50 terabytes of irreplaceable footage. Decades of local history. All of it trapped in a data center after its cloud provider vanished. But a Denver district judge just cleared a path forward. The ruling sets strict terms for Nine PBS to reclaim what it owns. And it forces the storage giant Iron Mountain to cooperate. The dispute began quietly. Nine P…

Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data

District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. "He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to recover them from OSS' storage systems," repo...

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

Read the full story at Ars Technica. After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine … Continue reading PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

PBS Station Takes Iron Mountain To Court Over Archives

KETC St. Louis says Iron Mountain is refusing to release more than 50 TB that represents "more than 70 years of history."