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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by hu3 on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:59PM (#19965132)
I think FB goes to great lenghts to never erase data. Including using Blue-ray discs to store stale data:

https://datacenterfrontier.com/inside-facebooks-blu-ray-cold...

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by dx034 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:30AM (#19968684)
Basically tape backups but with a different medium. I'd be surprised if they didn't have any offline backups.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by glenneroo on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:12AM (#19969077)
Tape backup is re-writable though isn't it? I had inherited one in the 90s and could re-write, granted it was painfully slow. Or are you saying that Blu-ray is re-writable too? The first iteration I used a few years ago could only write once.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by dx034 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:32AM (#19989392)
Maybe disks are cheaper, even if you can't reuse them. As an added benefit, you can also restore info from the more distant past if you recognize errors too late.
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