HACKER Q&A
📣 Calvin02

Are you backing up your Google account? If so, how?


From Gmail, GDocs, to Gdrive, I’m very dependent on Google. I know Google isn’t going anywhere but things happen or accounts get disabled.

What’s your contingency plan?

  👤 existencebox Accepted Answer ✓
If you're not aware of Google Takeout[0] I highly recommend looking into it. I take regular backups of my entire account, and persist them on a personal server (which has its own layers of replication.) This may not be the contingency plan you mean, but I've found it to be one useful piece of that puzzle.

[0] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

👤 madamelic
Not using Google is my method for reducing impact.

Even just moving your "root" email off of Google into something like ProtonMail or FastMail would be better.

👤 Const-me
I use MS outlook, setup it to download everything, and backing up the database. Also helps when migrating data to a new PC.
👤 charlieegan3
I use rclone to sync my drive to backblaze b2 daily. This runs in my personal cluster as a CronJob. The initial egress cost was steep but i’m not generating 100s of GB a month.

I download takeouts once a month and store them in drive to cover the other google data.

I have bucket versioning in b2 and only delete items manually every now and then.