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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (current.org)
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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but relying on a shady outsourced cloud storage middleman provider was kind of a terrible decision

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

100% agree. I keep all my media in 3¼ disks.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

I actually have a marble track that automatically syncs with my hard drive to back up all my data in a series of binary pits that either do or don't contain a marble