Dusty SF Archive
Television The online archive of Swiss Television is partially down. Reason: dust in the server room.
Television The online archive of Schweizer Fernsehen is partially down. If you currently want to watch a program from Schweizer Fernsehen in the online archive, you are most likely looking down the tubes. Reports produced before 2006 are not available at the sf.tv Internet address. In the case of the Tagesschau, this means seven years, all broadcasts from 1999 to 2005. Instead of the program you are looking for, a corresponding message has been appearing in the playback window for several weeks.
The reason for the outage was "a loss of data on a SRG SSR video server." Both SF and SRG do not know how long it will take until the archives can be put back online. According to SRG spokesman Daniel Steiner, the raw data is still available and not damaged. The files specially prepared for online access are affected by the defect.
Swiss Television is told that dust entered the server room in question during renovation work at SRG in Bern, which led to the damage. However, no one wants to or can confirm this. "We are still clarifying why this could have happened," says Daniel Steiner. It is also unclear whether the damaged data can be reconstructed at all, or whether the raw data has to be completely reformatted for online use.
Nick Lüthi
The reason for the outage was "a loss of data on a SRG SSR video server." Both SF and SRG do not know how long it will take until the archives can be put back online. According to SRG spokesman Daniel Steiner, the raw data is still available and not damaged. The files specially prepared for online access are affected by the defect.
Swiss Television is told that dust entered the server room in question during renovation work at SRG in Bern, which led to the damage. However, no one wants to or can confirm this. "We are still clarifying why this could have happened," says Daniel Steiner. It is also unclear whether the damaged data can be reconstructed at all, or whether the raw data has to be completely reformatted for online use.
Nick Lüthi
