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Google Takeout https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by cmurf 9y ago
Google Takeout
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout
Problems though: if your account is already disabled, you can't use this as far as I can tell; and there's no diff option, it's a monolithic backup each time. But it might provide a strategy to limit data loss resulting from having an account disabled for whatever reason.
- jxramos 9y agoWhat exactly is the file format that one downloads?
- blfr 9y agoDifferent formats for different services and for some even a choice of formats: iCalendar for Calendar; HTML, CSV or vcard for Contacts; json or KML for location history (Maps); mbox for Gmail... You can see your options before/without exporting anything.
- jxramos 9y agoNice, glad to hear it's a sane format and not some drudgery back handed punishment sort of thing like an obscure binary dump.
- cmurf 9y agoContacts vcf; Chrome stuff is html and json; Drive is exactly the files in Drive (as is) including directories; Photos directory also has a metadata.json file for each directory and then one for each image, haven't looked at the contents; Hangouts is json and png; Keep is html; Mail is a single file "All mail Including Spam and Trash.mbox"; Voice is html and mp3; Wallet is csv. These are all put into either a zip, tgz or tbz. The different archive formats have different max download sizes. Looks like the tbz has a 50G download size limit.