[kaushikc]

Don't mind my curiosity but I wonder if you do offsite backup of your emails or just take it for granted that Gmail is a reliable enough service ? It is very important to me but I never even considered backing up my Google takeout data. The point I want to make is that service reliability is a critical factor when considering what to backup. It was expected from Heroku to do the right thing and be conservative in their approach.

[rurp]

Anyone using Google products should absolutely backup their data regularly.

[TimWolla]

Personally I sync the emails in my Gmail account to my server at Hetzner using imapsync [1] every once in a while. The data on that server is backed up off-site at rsync.net using Borg. I'm intentionally not using Hetzner's storage boxes, because I want my backup to be entirely independent, e.g. if my Hetzner customer account is closed down for whatever reason.

[1] https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

[codegeek]

I hear you. I didn't do it for a while but I did 2 things more recently:

1. Setup IMAP backups locally on my computer and everything is backed up on computer to 3rd party backup tool

2. Use Google Takeout from time to time (it is a bit weird at times though).