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Legacy backup data

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How do you address RTBF with potentially years of legacy backup data?
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Andrei Hanganu Dec 18, 2017

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If you have huge amount of legacy backup data you should determine adequate retention periods. As a general rule unless there is a specific legal requirement or a legitimate interest personal data should be deleted after they are no longer needed for that specific processing activity.

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