Google Photos is most decidedly not a viable backup for photos and videos. Google Takeout is broken or flakey, and had been for at least a year. Good luck down

Google Photos is most decidedly not a viable backup for photos and videos. Google Takeout is broken or flakey, and had been for at least a year. Good luck downloading any archive before it falls with "transfer failed: bad authentication" 30 minutes into the transfer. Of 30 tarballs, only one actually completed successfully. And the images in the tarballs aren't the same bits that I uploaded (via my pixel, so it's supposed to be "original quality," not "high quality"). Pulling your files via the API results in corrupted metadata. Time and GPS location tags are stripped. YouTube videos are, by design, reencoded with very low bitrates.