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Ask HN: Are you backing up your Google account? If so, how?
From Gmail, GDocs, to Gdrive, I’m very dependent on Google. I know Google isn’t going anywhere but things happen or accounts get disabled.
What’s your contingency plan?
- madamelic 7y agoNot using Google is my method for reducing impact. Even just moving your "root" email off of Google into something like ProtonMail or FastMail would be better.
- existencebox 7y agoIf you're not aware of Google Takeout[0] I highly recommend looking into it. I take regular backups of my entire account, and persist them on a personal server (which has its own layers of replication.) This may not be the contingency plan you mean, but I've found it to be one useful piece of that puzzle. [0] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- m-p-3 7y agoThis is IMO the best option. Just wondering, do you automate the process, or you simply take a backup once in a while? And for OP: the MBOX file format used for Mail works well in Mozilla Thunderbird using this addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/ https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/importexporttoo... ), if you need something to visualize its content easily.
- charlieegan3 7y agoI use rclone to sync my drive to backblaze b2 daily. This runs in my personal cluster as a CronJob. The initial egress cost was steep but i’m not generating 100s of GB a month. I download takeouts once a month and store them in drive to cover the other google data. I have bucket versioning in b2 and only delete items manually every now and then.
- Const-me 7y agoI use MS outlook, setup it to download everything, and backing up the database. Also helps when migrating data to a new PC.