Does GDPR Make Me Go Tapeless?
So, let me guess … your manager just asked you whether you can delete someone’s personal data from your backup copies if he or she were to ask you following a ‘right to be forgotten’ request, right...
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Hi
What are you saying here? Having 5240 doesn't give you the ability to remove certain files from the catalog/backup storage does it? Is there some change in the NetBackup code allowing you to selectively delete certain files from the catalog > disk.
Hi Riaan,
Thanks for calling this out. Nothing has changed to the file deletion process.
GDPR and in particular article 17 “right to be forgotten” will affect most companies. Once GDPR comes into effect, companies must “without delay” respond to a “right to be forgotten” request; deleting all personal data of that individual, and this includes his or her personal data that is held on backups.
What I am saying is that the deletion process can be performed much faster and much more efficient on our appliances than on a tape-based system. If you use our appliances, then you have direct access to the backup images/ copies. You don’t have to retrieve and change backup tapes. The appliances also deliver a significant boost of the backup and recovery performance over a tape-based system.
I promoted the recently released NetBackup 5240 Appliance in my CTA, because it is our next-generation appliance in the 5200 series with improved performance, higher capacity and price-optimized storage.
Let me know if this answers your question?
Thanks,
Arjan
Hi Arjan,
Yes, tape might be easier than disk, but this operation will in no way be easy. Maybe now with infomap there would be some kind of indexing after the search feature was removed.
I'm keen to see how this will be implemented.
