I agree that it's hard to beat the availability of Google consumer services... But that is not backup. A backup serves as a fallback if for any reason the prim

I agree that it's hard to beat the availability of Google consumer services... But that is not backup. A backup serves as a fallback if for any reason the primary source has become unavailable. In Google's case such an even can and does occur when your account gets banned because of some random event which you had hardly anything to do with or because your user was compromised. A backup let's you recover from that and if you don't have that, I hope for your sake you don't mind losing the data too much, because the previous situations happen quite frequently if you actually listen on Twitter, Reddit or whatever social network you frequent.