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You can also schedule Google Takeout, which gives you a nice .zip or .tgz with mbox files, in addition to all of your other Google information. I have it set to

by snazz 6y ago

You can also schedule Google Takeout, which gives you a nice .zip or .tgz with mbox files, in addition to all of your other Google information. I have it set to deliver one of these backups every two months automatically.

silicon2401 6y ago
does this include absolutely everything from your Google account, like all emails with attachments, google photos with album data, youtube videos from your channel, etc? If not, does someone know of a guide out there on how to export all of one's data from Google?
- snazz 6y ago
  Yes. I can verify that it contains email attachments, Google Photos files (along with metadata in JSON format), and YouTube videos. There is quite a bit of other information included as well, some of which I didn't even know I had created.
  - silicon2401 6y ago
    That's actually amazing. thanks for your response! I've been slowly working on detaching from google this year due to stories like this, but the thought of manually downloading all my data was rather overwhelming. Glad to know they at least offer this feature
pnutjam 6y ago
Those multipart backups are a pain to download in my experience. I decided to setup a key and backup via the api for gmail and gphoto. i should probably do drive as well... This works for email and says it will let you upload to another account. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back
acd10j 6y ago
How would you do google checkout once they have banned your account with no access ? Even if you have done it majority of people suffering from this fate will not have google checkout data or access to it !
- snazz 6y ago
  True. But I was replying to a comment which mentioned using IMAP sync as a backup; both that solution and Google Takeout require access to your account.

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You can also schedule Google Takeout, which gives you a nice .zip or .tgz with mbox files, in addition to all of your other Google information. I have it set to

by snazz 6y ago

silicon2401 6y ago
does this include absolutely everything from your Google account, like all emails with attachments, google photos with album data, youtube videos from your channel, etc? If not, does someone know of a guide out there on how to export all of one's data from Google?
- snazz 6y ago
  Yes. I can verify that it contains email attachments, Google Photos files (along with metadata in JSON format), and YouTube videos. There is quite a bit of other information included as well, some of which I didn't even know I had created.
  - silicon2401 6y ago
    That's actually amazing. thanks for your response! I've been slowly working on detaching from google this year due to stories like this, but the thought of manually downloading all my data was rather overwhelming. Glad to know they at least offer this feature
pnutjam 6y ago
Those multipart backups are a pain to download in my experience. I decided to setup a key and backup via the api for gmail and gphoto. i should probably do drive as well... This works for email and says it will let you upload to another account. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back
acd10j 6y ago
How would you do google checkout once they have banned your account with no access ? Even if you have done it majority of people suffering from this fate will not have google checkout data or access to it !
- snazz 6y ago
  True. But I was replying to a comment which mentioned using IMAP sync as a backup; both that solution and Google Takeout require access to your account.