Ask HN: Is there a simple way to continuously backup your Google account?

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by leros • 4 years ago

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I've seen a few posts about people having their Google accounts disabled. It would be absolutely devastating to me to lose my email, docs, etc.

Is there a simple backup service I can buy to back this stuff up somewhere?

__d• 4 years ago

Just curious: how much would you be willing to pay, per year, for a service that did this?

EngCanMan• 4 years ago

I have a synology NAS specifically to backup my google workspace.

leros3• 4 years ago

How does this work? Is it just backing up your Google drive or also things like docs and email?

Glant• 4 years ago

You can use Google Takeout to receive a zip in an email of all your data, including drive, email, and seemingly everything else. You can even schedule it to send a new backup once every 2 months for a year, then just remember to renew the schedule every year. I have my Gmail mirror to a local mail server which sort of becomes my "backup".

https://takeout.google.com/

kmos17• 4 years ago

I’ve seen this service mentioned here or on reddit (can’t remember which) that does goggle apps backups: https://www.cubebackup.com not sure they do individual accounts, and I haven’t tried using that service yet although planning to test it. anyone else has?

leros3• 4 years ago

This looks really interesting.

Ask HN: Is there a simple way to continuously backup your Google account?

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