For a particular enthusiast this must be devastating. Professional photographers, heavy travelers, family archivists. A couple months ago, they would have decid

For a particular enthusiast this must be devastating. Professional photographers, heavy travelers, family archivists. A couple months ago, they would have decided it was worth having Google hang onto this and now it's gone. Hopefully this fuels more complete self-managed backup solutions. We already have good options for system-level backups (i.e. Time Machine) and although we have the low-level tools (such as restic), the turnkey experience is missing for things we don't keep at hand on a local device, but still treasure. Perhaps I'm wrong? I guess it slots in with a larger desire to streamline the takeout process from all the tech giants. A trustworthy (must be open source) app you can feed your credentials to and have it automatically run a Takeout-like on each of these accounts. Then provide an encrypted local backup.