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"When data subjects exercise one of their rights, the controller must respond within one month. If the request is too complex and more time is needed to answer, then your organisation may extend the time limit by two further months, provided that the data subject is informed within one month after receiving the request."

Backup retention policy 60 days, respond within a week or two telling someone that you have purged their data from the main database but that these backups exist and cannot be changed, but that they will be automatically deleted in 60 days.

The only real difficulty is if those backups are actually restored, then the user deletion needs to be replayed, which is something that would be easy to forget.




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