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I periodically use the takeout service and selectively copy to the 1TB of storage I have on OneDrive (which comes with an Office 365 subscription). Having my di
by mark_l_watson 6y ago
I periodically use the takeout service and selectively copy to the 1TB of storage I have on OneDrive (which comes with an Office 365 subscription). Having my digital stuff backed up on two cloud providers is enough for my capacity for risk. I used to make a 3rd backup in Dropbox but don’t do that anymore.
- wombat-man 6y agoHuh, i was thinking I’d do something similar but upload the file to maybe s3 glacier storage in aws.
- Clampower 6y agoI once tried to download my Google photos, and it became super messy. I got tons of different folders all with duplicates and other stuff and it was pretty unusable. Has this improved?
- dredmorbius 6y agoDepending on when you did this, likely somewhat. One of the positives of the Google+ shutdown was that Google Takeout saw a major overhaul around February of 2019. Third-party tools (Alois Bělaška's Friends+Me was invaluable https://blog.friendsplus.me/ https://blog.friendsplus.me/) still proved very useful, and gave capabilities missing from Google's offerings. Dealing with data exports remains challenging.
- tristanperry 6y agoI did this 2 days ago, it's the exact same. I used a simple one-liner find/mv command to move all JPGs into the same folder... which made it more decent.
- texasbigdata 6y agoDo you do this to time stamp changes using a sort of differential technique? Or just for non-reliance on Google.
- tambeb 6y agoYes! I do the backup OneDrive backup too. (Not a typo, I meant to say backup twice.) And I actually do it for my live Google Drive as well. I rsync my Google Drive folder to network storage, without deletion, and I have OneDrive syncing that. So I have a local and cloud backup of everything that's ever been in Google Drive.