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At times like this I am thankful of running a Google takeout periodically. Not because I use it as a live failover for Google services, but because these outag
by buro9 6y ago
At times like this I am thankful of running a Google takeout periodically.
Not because I use it as a live failover for Google services, but because these outages are good reminders of the mortality of online services.
- gzer0 6y agoHow long did your takeout take? It’s been 3 weeks and mine either says not ready yet, or when it is it will say unable to download and force me to start again...
- buro9 6y agoWhen I request a full takeout it usually takes 2-4 weeks to generate. This time around it was missing a .tgz which had error'd. A subsequent full takeout request took a couple of days. The .tgz files I find can only be reliably extracted on a Linux... the Gmail export for me is 20GB which in the last few exports has been a single file in the last .tgz