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Given how easy and carelessly Google can close your account and ruin your digital life, I guess periodic backups of your cloud accounts will soon be considered
by pawadu 10y ago
Given how easy and carelessly Google can close your account and ruin your digital life, I guess periodic backups of your cloud accounts will soon be considered a good practice.
- Demcox 10y agoThis - and having no unique data anywhere. Having your files distributed this day and age should be general approach.
- scholia 10y ago> I guess periodic backups of your cloud accounts will soon be considered a good practice. It has been good practice for a couple of decades. Of course, getting people to follow good practices is another matter....
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- bartvk 10y agoIn this case, it's not as good as a normal backup. To my knowledge, Google Docs/Sheets/etc. is exported in other file formats (MS Word format, PDF format, etc), not their internal file format. So it's not a real backup, just an export.
- scholia 10y agoGood point. And we have no way of knowing what Google's internal format looks like...
- adam12 10y agoI'm afraid this tool might trigger my account to be disabled.
- chongli 10y agoThen use Google Takeout [0], Google's official tool for backing up all your data. [0] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- tomschlick 10y agoIt uses the same IMAP protocol that your mail clients do. I have been using it for years and not a single issue with google closing down any of the 5-6 accounts I have archived.