[Ixiaus]

I use rclone to backup my Google Drive to S3. If you're not doing something similar, I recommend it (rclone will also export google docs to ODF formats).

[eichin]

Note that the ODF conversion is happening on google's side - which means that if you have a cloud document above some embarassingly small size (like a Slides deck of the interns' end of year presentations with a couple of videos inside) ... you'll just get a size error, and there's nothing rclone can do to fix it. (Basically, pay attention to the warnings...)

[crazygringo]

Yes -- I've encountered this problem trying to back up Google Drive using multiple clients.

Sometimes a file download takes longer than 30s to start, either because it's converting, but also virus checks on large files. (For me it was always virus checks on PDF's over ~30MB).

You may need to change a timeout setting, so that your client will wait up to e.g. 5 min for a download to start its first byte.

[andrewxdiamond]

I also run sync to an veracrypt encrypted flash drive. I think local storage is a key part of a personal data back up strategy

[gumby]

Unfortunately google’s own “sync to local” software is quite unreliable, at least on the Mac. Anyway its synced “files” are often just urls, so you can’t search them and the content isn’t actually downloaded.

I don’t understand why anyone relies on this.

[quickthrower2]

I hope someone is "just using rsync" to backup their Dropbox.

[rsync]

Yes, I also hope that.

Should be very simple:

  ssh [e-mail] rclone sync dropbox:rsynctest rsynctestdirectory

... or something like that[1].

Oh, you meant rsync the command ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

[milofeynman]

Do you run a daily cron or something? I've been trying to figure out how to backup my photos from google.

[thefourthchime]

It was quite an adventure when I exported all my photos from Google Drive. It took Google a couple of days to get everything ready. Afterward, I downloaded around 15 zip files, each with a size of several gigabytes.

It was quite a task to unzip them all, perform deduplication, and import them into iCloud photos.

To keep them synced with S3, I am currently using an app called Photosync.

[hughesjj]

Check out rclone if you haven't yet. Im also a fan of duplicity.

I'd recommend combining it with something like rmlint for your daily cron jobs.

[szszrk]

What's the goal of your post, aside from being snarky? A guy gave an interesting feature of rclone, actually.

[q7xvh97o2pDhNrh]

I know you're (partly?) joking, but I'd gladly pay $20/mo for this kind of "cloud insurance policy" (on top of whatever trivial storage costs there are with each service).

I really wish a service like this existed.

[leemailll]

Sure you are joking. But I do have onedrive with hetzner stroagebox and two local backup running at two different locations for this