This works fine for smaller accounts, but on larger accounts it seems to be regularly failing (based on my own experience and based on other postings and reports that I found online).
Exporting my Google Photos sometimes fails consistently even with lots of attempts. Out of well over 10 export attempts or so this year maybe a single one succeeded. I have a few hundred GB of data stored on that account. I also currently have a support ticket with Google open on that issue, but after initial follow-ups haven't received a response in a couple of months now.
That said my current approach for backing up things is to upload an "age" encrypted version of the data from Google Takeout to Wasabi. Once uploaded I run a script that shows me the diff between the data sets (so that I can ensure that no old data went missing that shouldn't have gone missing) before I delete older data. Probably not the most optimal approach though. Might be better to just set up some versioning layer on top of Wasabi and to keep deleted or modified data forever.
I was trying to set up a similar thing. I already do the google takeouts every few months (~400GB, I don’t have issues with export though), but so far have been storing all of them.
How do you do the diff between the old and new encrypted versions? Do you encrypt and upload the takeout .tar.gz files, or do extract first then encrypt?
taneq|2 years ago
lupire|2 years ago
gst|2 years ago
Exporting my Google Photos sometimes fails consistently even with lots of attempts. Out of well over 10 export attempts or so this year maybe a single one succeeded. I have a few hundred GB of data stored on that account. I also currently have a support ticket with Google open on that issue, but after initial follow-ups haven't received a response in a couple of months now.
That said my current approach for backing up things is to upload an "age" encrypted version of the data from Google Takeout to Wasabi. Once uploaded I run a script that shows me the diff between the data sets (so that I can ensure that no old data went missing that shouldn't have gone missing) before I delete older data. Probably not the most optimal approach though. Might be better to just set up some versioning layer on top of Wasabi and to keep deleted or modified data forever.
radicality|2 years ago
How do you do the diff between the old and new encrypted versions? Do you encrypt and upload the takeout .tar.gz files, or do extract first then encrypt?
kuchenbecker|2 years ago