I know this has been posted a few times but execs need to learn “cloud” is just someone else’s storage they control. If the data is critical it can’t be in the cloud only.
What kills me about this is that 50 TB isn't actually that much data, and they could have pretty easily had a first-party, offline backup of this. You can buy a 16 TB hard disk for <$700 on Newegg (even with the storage price increases), and any halfway-decent IT person could have set up their own storage backup server with a ZFS pool on commodity hardware within a day or two. That's probably, all in, probably under <$3k in hardware and a bit of labor to have a local redundant backup (of cold, rarely accessed media) for everything before they uploaded it to the cloud that would have de-risked this whole situation enormously.
Nine PBS, not PBS, this was a specific PBS station not the overall organization known as PBS. And this article is now 10 days old, and published after a resolution was settled on. The work still has to be done, but they're getting access to their data if it can be retrieved.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 14.0 ms ] threadhttps://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pb... - Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333344