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Comment by crazygringo

Takeout is not really a great solution for backup, since it's not incremental. You're going to be wasting a looooot of space.

I use dedicated tools for backing up my most important Google data -- rclone for my Drive, and gmvault for my Gmail. And I'd use gphotos-sync if I used Google Photos (but I don't). And around once a year I use Takeout for the rest -- stuff like Calendar, Contacts, etc.

Takeout doesn't really fit the author's use case. It's intended for migrating your data to another service, not for regular backup.

parent crazygringo 2 years ago

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