Podcast Network battles on

Tim Burrowes

December 23, 2008 9:00

The Podcast Network is continuing to fight back from its disastrous server crash, although it looks like some of the archived shows have indeed been lost.

Boss Cameron Reilly has posted a blog this morning telling his subscribers: “We’re going to be rebuilding the old sites from backups as fast as possible. Unfortunately, we recently outgrew the service we were using to backup the architecture and media files and this crash happened before I managed to get a bigger backup drive configured. It’s always the way. As a result we’ve lost the old media files.”

He adds: “I’m also hoping we’ll be able to find a data forensic service that can pull stuff from our old dead drive. So I think we’ll be okay. It’ll probably take us a week to get all of the current shows back up and running.”

The Podcast Network was Australia’s first podcast operation, and remains one of the world’s biggest with Reilly an internationally known figure among podcasters. In his message he adds:

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.