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This is a good opportunity to take it as a reminder to backup your data from Google. In three steps you can ease some of the future pain when/if disaster strike
by aranelsurion 5y ago
This is a good opportunity to take it as a reminder to backup your data from Google. In three steps you can ease some of the future pain when/if disaster strikes and you get stuck between the cogs:
1) get your own domain if you don't already, and run your e-mail over there. (so, no @gmail.com emails)
2) use google takeout, it's a service that can e-mail you periodically with a link of your data over various Google services. IIRC it can also sync to other clouds, dropbox etc. Data will be stale, but still better than losing everything I suppose.
3) if you use google drive, install google sync app and let it sync to a trusted computer of yours.
optionally you can also sync your e-mails through IMAP if you keep a large archive, or if potentially losing recent e-mails (that are not picked up by last takeout) is too big of an issue for you.
as a bonus, I try not to pay Google for anything through my main account, to prevent issues with payment, chargebacks/disputes, false positive fraud detection etc.
.. or you can get a paid workspaces account, you'll likely still need to do all of the above to make sure, but your odds of getting some kind of support will be at least bigger than zero, esp. if you don't have a million followers on Twitter.
- timeless102 5y agoI have a domain and use it with Gsuite but my domain contact email (to change anything with the registrar like moving the domain to another registrar) is still set to my gmail account. I did that because I thought you could get stuck in a sort of loop if you ever had problems with the registrar. You'd then not be able to potentially access your email to transfer your domain. But the same issue is possible if I lose access to my gmail.com account. How do you handle that situation or do you simply use your domain gsuite account as the admin contact with your registrar?
- timeless102 5y agoAdditionally, what do you use for your registrar account recovery email? Like if you need to recover your registrar account password? I just can't think of a way to set it up so a free gmail account isn't involved at some point.