Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data(current.org)
376 points by vinayakborkar 8 days ago | 220 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Iron Mountain may be legally justified in requiring a court order before releasing customer data
  • PBS failed at basic backup practices like the 3-2-1 rule for such a small dataset
  • 50TB is trivially small and cheap to duplicate, making this situation avoidable
  • The storage vendor OSS appears to be a suspiciously tiny/shell company raising contract questions
  • ~Long-term archival storage is a genuinely hard problem the industry will increasingly face