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I periodically use the takeout service and selectively copy to the 1TB of storage I have on OneDrive (which comes with an Office 365 subscription). Having my digital stuff backed up on two cloud providers is enough for my capacity for risk. I used to make a 3rd backup in Dropbox but don’t do that anymore.

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I once tried to download my Google photos, and it became super messy. I got tons of different folders all with duplicates and other stuff and it was pretty unusable.

Has this improved?

Depending on when you did this, likely somewhat.

One of the positives of the Google+ shutdown was that Google Takeout saw a major overhaul around February of 2019. Third-party tools (Alois Bělaška's Friends+Me was invaluable https://blog.friendsplus.me/) still proved very useful, and gave capabilities missing from Google's offerings.

Dealing with data exports remains challenging.

I did this 2 days ago, it's the exact same.

I used a simple one-liner find/mv command to move all JPGs into the same folder... which made it more decent.

Yes! I do the backup OneDrive backup too. (Not a typo, I meant to say backup twice.) And I actually do it for my live Google Drive as well.

I rsync my Google Drive folder to network storage, without deletion, and I have OneDrive syncing that. So I have a local and cloud backup of everything that's ever been in Google Drive.

Do you do this to time stamp changes using a sort of differential technique? Or just for non-reliance on Google.

Huh, i was thinking I’d do something similar but upload the file to maybe s3 glacier storage in aws.

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