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

4 points by leros ↗ HN
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?

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__d
Just curious: how much would you be willing to pay, per year, for a service that did this?
EngCanMan
I have a synology NAS specifically to backup my google workspace.
leros
How does this work? Is it just backing up your Google drive or also things like docs and email?
Glant
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/

leros
I saw that you could schedule takeouts every two months. Is there a practical way to use that for restoration?
kmos17
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?
leros
This looks really interesting.