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by cremp 2542 days ago
> kept these logs in backups

Is that unreasonable?

I mean, I cannot possibly expect myself to go through my backups and delete a folder from everything, down to the multi-year incremental.

Once you start tampering with a backup, it stops being a backup.

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This can be done by encrypting each backed-up item and forgetting the key for deleted items that shouldn't be restorable from backup. You still need to decide how long the keys should be kept, though.
Well then "delete past recordings here" is probably not true.