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It's reached the point where five or so agencies have a de-facto oligopoly over our digital life and the t&c are written almost totally in their favour. I took a .zip of my digital life last year, and I intend renewing it periodically.

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If you don't already, you can set Google Takeout [0] to create an export of all your Google data every two months for 1 year and it'll email you when it's ready. I download my data and move it to an archive drive, it would be cool if there was a way to automate the process of downloading and storing x latest archives but I haven't looked into it.

[0] https://takeout.google.com/

Note that Google Takeout apparently crashes/doesn't work for some people, and there doesn't seem to be a help point for people to get it fixed. :(

This is precisely what I did. You just said it betterer

What happens after the year is up? Will it notify you that you need to reinitiate?

There's also some things that can be automated, so you don't have to remember to do it.

That's what I did for Drive, Photos and Gmail. I setup cron jobs to automatically pull everything from there and save it locally.

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