Backup
Nine PBS lost 50TB and 70 years of history — and the cloud isn't the villain you think
A story Kafka would have rejected as too implausible
Let me walk you through what happened to Nine PBS, the public television station in St. Louis, because every time I re-read the timeline I find a new layer of absurdity.
The station stored 50 terabytes of archival material — roughly 70 years of …