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I was going to say, if Google is silently losing and corrupting files then backing up from there is just duplicating the failure. But perhaps his backup scheme

I was going to say, if Google is silently losing and corrupting files then backing up from there is just duplicating the failure. But perhaps his backup scheme accounts for this unreliability.

jacquesm 3y ago
That's why I'm wondering if they've tried. It may well be that the restore shows that even accounts that don't appear to be affected have lost files simply because very few people have an exact accounting of what it is that they've stored. I have pretty much all of my stuff in a subversion repo and it serves both as backup and local copy checked out on multiple machines. The only exception is the business stuff (because it is shared with multiple people) and we use Google for that. But an inspection of Google take-out showed that it's nice to have the files but you won't be doing much with them outside of Google unless you download them one-by-one in a format that isn't tied to the Google cloud. And that is very tricky and time consuming.