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Ask HN: How do you backup your Google account?

2•leros•2h ago
My entire life is in Google: GMail, Google Drive, and Photos. I'm happy with it except for the fact that I'm terrified of getting locked out and losing everything.

Is there any simple solution for an always running backup that could backup to a local NAS or reLly anywhere? The simpler the better. Ideally, I want an appliance not a bunch of scripts hacked together.

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chistev•1h ago
> My entire life is in Google: GMail, Google Drive, and Photos. I'm happy with it except for the fact that I'm terrified of getting locked out and losing everything.

This has been my fear lately. Especially after Facebook banned my account earlier this year for "account integrity" issues. An account I had since 2011. My appeals failed and my emails to them went unresponded to. I made a post about it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43420648

It made me realize I can't just leave personal data with an organization that can just ban me whenever they feel like.

I've thought about backing up everything to my OneDrive so that I have two backups, I mean, what are the odds that I get banned by Microsoft and Google at the same time before I can find another cloud provider?

I don't know, I'll follow this thread for better suggestions.

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