Backups are fine because they are short-lived. You obviously have a reasonable amount of time to implement a request for deletion, say a week or two. If you ar

Backups are fine because they are short-lived. You obviously have a reasonable amount of time to implement a request for deletion, say a week or two. If you are keeping year-old “backups”, that’s actually an archive. The difference shouldn’t be too difficult to understand because year-old data is obviously useless if you have restore your database.