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'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season

Posted by timothy on from the when-backup-day-comes-too-late dept.

itwbennett writes "The creators of 'Zodiac Island' say they lost an entire season of their syndicated children's television show after a former employee at their Internet service provider wiped out more than 300GB of video files. eR1 World Network, the show's creator, is suing the ISP, CyberLynk of Franklin, Wisconsin, and its former employee, Michael Jewson, for damages, saying CyberLynk should have done a better job of protecting its data."

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  1. Re:Backups by bmo · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20)

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    BMO

  2. Re:This is by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Informative
    That's easy to say, but the trend is the other way. How many people here on slashdot even use gmail as their primary email provider and don't ever back up the messages?

    You might say it's not the same thing, but it's not so different for a company to keep some of their most valuable assets in the cloud in one place, and for a person to keep some of their most valuable communications and contacts in the cloud in one place.

    If something is valuable, never trust it wholly to the cloud.

  3. Re:In their defense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's fairly common practice to keep the raw video in case you need to do something with it. It's generally higher quality, free from effects and can be remixed as needed. In the event the finished product is wiped out then the show can be reproduced at some cost.

    RTFA. This was not yet a finished product. They were files that had been passed back and forth between artist/animators/etc for the last 2 years while developing the show. It was a remote, collaborative effort that was still ongoing. So these were essentially the unfinished source files that got lost. The article says that while 300GB were wiped, they only permanently lost 65GB of data. I'm assuming the other 235GB were files that the various contributors still had their own local copies of.