Comment by iudqnolq
3 years ago
Have you ever tried to takeout a large amount of data across many services? Describing it as a process you do slowly is entirely fair.
3 years ago
Have you ever tried to takeout a large amount of data across many services? Describing it as a process you do slowly is entirely fair.
For me, I just used google takeout to generate a giant 18gig zip and then I downloaded it. I do that once a year. It takes a long time to download, but it’s actually fairly quick and I wouldn’t describe it as a slow process.
For me there are always a bunch of services that fail or are missing some data. So you need to keep retrying.
With google takeout? I’ve never experienced that and subsequent downloads always yield the same results.
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Where/how do you backup your takeout data?
A synology NAS and aws glacier.
Why does it matter if it's slow or fast? Because it's easy, regardless.
You just click the boxes for the services you want, it e-mails you when it's ready minutes/hours later, and you download the file(s) at the speed of your internet connection.
Considering it has to zip up many gigabytes of data from various sources, it works at an entirely reasonable speed.
The idea that it's too slow to be of value is a reason not to use it makes no sense.
Do you just not make backups of your data at all, because backups take hours?
You can auth it to your Dropbox account if you have one and they will export to it on a cadence into the /Apps folder.