Note that the Google Photos API which rclone uses for gphotos sources does not allow downloading original quality images (only re-compressed versions), and stri

Note that the Google Photos API which rclone uses for gphotos sources does not allow downloading original quality images (only re-compressed versions), and strips EXIF. So I personally don't use it for backup purposes, instead I: 1) Sync my Google Drive to a local Synology NAS 2) Periodically request a Google Takeout, which dumps the entire contents of my Google account (including original photos) into Drive. 3) A nightly script unzips the takeout archives so they can be picked up by an incremental backup to Backblaze B2. The NAS also does local snapshots. This has some nice properties: - There are 3 distinct copies - If a file is inadvertently deleted I can restore from either local snapshot or B2. - If my google account is nuked I still have an archive of mail, photos, etc. Though that's limited to the frequency of my Takeout requests. - Since the NAS is the single point for backups it's a natural place to put non-cloud files, or Dropbox etc and have them automatically picked up for backup without setting up anything new.