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My issue with Google Takeout is that it is very difficult to download the generated archives on a normal Internet connection. If a download gets interrupted for
by Flimm 2y ago
My issue with Google Takeout is that it is very difficult to download the generated archives on a normal Internet connection. If a download gets interrupted for any reason, I cannot resume the download, I have to re-enter my Google credentials and start again. It can take days to finish downloading a 10GB download, as I constantly monitor the downloads, restart them and re-enter connections. That would take me a couple of hours using BitTorrent, with no manual interventions required. This problem cannot be blamed on other teams within Google.
- Dah00n 2y agoWhat connection are you downloading over? It sounds very annoying.
- bmacho 2y agoI am almost sure that downloads are resumable using wget. I'll probably check it in the following days
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoWeb browsers' and wget use the same HTTP features for resuming downloads (range-requests) so if it works in one it should work in the other. I've never had enough data in a google takeout that it would fail partway though.
- bmacho 2y agoIn my experience web browsers don't use range requests for resuming downloads, but just start downloads over. Or at least I don't know how to make them resume.