How and why to back up your Google data

Ultimate guide to do an encrypted backup of your Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos to a third-partyGoogle operates at a scale of billions of users. At that scale, mistakes happen, and you can lose all your data. Here are two ways to deal with it. Avoid giving out your @gmail.com email address publicly - use @customdomain.com which you control Keep a backup of your important data elsewhere, like Backblaze - it charges about USD 1 for storing 100GB for one year, which is sufficient for most normal users How to back up Google Photos to Backblaze Download via Google Takeout - depending on the size, it will take up to a few hours for Google to create a takeout and put it in, say, ${HOME}/Downloads/google-photos/Takeout Create a new bucket on Backblaze - google-photos-backup-v1 Create a new Backblaze key and save it in .env as AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY Use restic for backup One-time init: make initGooglePhotos # remember the password you configure here Backup: make…

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