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petters on Jan 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview

This is correct. A deletion should be effective/visible immediately, but it can take some time before all backups are guaranteed to be gone.

drieddust on Jan 13, 2017 [–]

No it isn't google takes your data to tapes as well as offline long term storage.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM

mkj on Jan 13, 2017 | [–]

They could be deleting encryption keys to the tapes? All speculation.

puzzle on Jan 13, 2017 | | [–]

There was a talk about the backup infrastructure. The speaker talked about the issue of keys, but didn't provide specific details:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...

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