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Actually I'm wondering if you can use the GDPR for this. It gives you the right to ask for a copy of your data. This counts for places where you don't have an explicit account so presumably o could get a copy of all data from my account even if I lose access?

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Probably, but depending on that rather than making regular backups is a bit mad. https://takeout.google.com/ even lets you schedule regular archiving.

Looking at the choices on that takeout page, I realized that there were a number of Google services I didn't event know about: "Google Arts & Culture", "Crisis User Reports", "Handsfree", "Textcube".

If you have 100GB+ with Google, takeout doesn't work. Either you have to manually download files 2GB at a time reauthenticating each time, or try a 50GB download the times out on the server side as gets cancelled with auth error. There's no way to but a physical backup or run a long running process to fetch your data reliably over the course of the week.

It might work if you get an GCE VM and crossload your Google takeout to cloud storage and then download using cloud storage APIs.

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