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Set a reminder every 3 or 6 months to use Google Takeout. Download a full copy of your data to a hard drive in your local possession. If you’re really paranoid
by javagram 6y ago
Set a reminder every 3 or 6 months to use Google Takeout. Download a full copy of your data to a hard drive in your local possession.
If you’re really paranoid, download a 2nd copy and put it on a hard drive that you then leave unplugged from all computers and the internet until the next time.
Simple solution for anyone with broadband, and then if you ever lost your cloud data due to subscription lapsing or inactivity you have 1-2 local copies for you or your family.
- spullara 6y agoIs there an automated version of this?
- amelius 6y agoPerhaps, if it can recognize traffic lights and crosswalks.
- jkingsman 6y agoYes, you can set a scheduled download (I think for up to six months) within takeout and specify the downloads to go to Dropbox or a couple other storage providers. As someone who does this every month, the downside is that there are often glitches in the export (which they usually catch) and you'll need to set up a new export to get them to try again. In the worst case, I've needed to re-export three times to get them to green flag it as a clean collection without any errors (which sucks when it's a couple days for them to prep it and then another while to actually download and store 300GB of data).
- spicybright 6y agoWait, what's the danger of keeping your backup on an internet connected machine?
- jkingsman 6y agoThings that communicate with the web are susceptible to malware and exploit. Offline storage of course can also suffer bit rot/theft/damage, but it erases the possibility of malicious access over the web and makes it that much more secure. Use the 3-2-1 backup method (3 instances of data, 2 of them not the original (backups), 1 of them offsite). I use cloud backup(s) for my offsite(s) and the remaining backup lends itself to being an external harddrive (or a very well firewalled NAS if it must be on the network).
- zeroxfe 6y agoRansomware, for one. Bugs. Accidents. In general, it's good security practice to keep a set of backups offsite, and disconnected.
- kortilla 6y agoRansomware
- zeroxfe 6y agoThis is what I do. (With the extra step of also encrypting the data.)
- edub 6y agosadly my google takeout never completes. i try about once a year to see if whatever the issue is has resolved itself for maybe the last 6-8 years. i can get some services to takeout if i go one by one, but not the data i really care about.
- GordonS 6y agoGoogle Takeout doesn't seem to work for me. Any time I setup an export, they appear to be scheduled, but never run. If I go to takeout.google.com now, I see: "Export 1 of 1 will start on 18 November 2020" Any idea what I'm supposed to do about that?