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Deleting data from backups (or, more often, aging out backups and deleting them wholesale) is usually a batch process. You really don't want to have to do online modification of backups... they're not really backups at that point. 45 days doesn't seem unreasonable.

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If it’s so much work to handle the data responsibly, maybe it shouldn’t be collected in the first place.

Well... doesn't that circumvent the point of backups? Backups in my mind are supposed to be like read-only, can never be modified so that the system that was corrupted can't do anything harmful to the safe previous checkpoint.

I guess it has to have some method of what you mention then. If someone wants their data deleted, yes, what about the backups?

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