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G employee. If you are using G to store anything important and if you do not have an offline backup or some other redundancy please reconsider.

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The tools and APIs that your company offers make it really difficult to create such a backup and to keep it in sync. How can I do this for Google Photos? The Google Photo API returns compressed files with missing EXIF info. The Google Takeout option can't be automated and needs third party tooling to convert back into a usable format.

fyi you can automate Takeout to a degree. You can tell it to prepare a takeout once every 2 months I think, and you’ll then get an email when it’s ready. You could probably script something to look for those emails, download the compressed tgz files, and then store or upload to some backup location.

G employee: how does that work for Google Docs? You can only backup export versions of docs, and you lose most of the collaboration capability.

Do people lose data or lose proof of identity when they have had account(s) banned?

The biggest hurdle would be actually finding someone to talk to if the account gets banned.

The only truly effective way: serve corporate with a lawsuit!

Agreed. Cloudsync is a car superior product and supports every cloud service ever and full encryption.

https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/

Its great tech but why charge per device to personal users?

  if you want free there's always https://rclone.org/

Options:

- to keep things affordable for those who can afford to buy only a few devices

- to extract as much money as possible from those who can afford to buy multiple devices

It’s a pricing strategy. That doesn’t have to reflect what it costs them at all, but ideally should match what it’s worth to the customer (if it doesn’t, they either leave money on the table or don’t get sales)

Isn't the idea behind cloud storage to be able no to buy the actual physical storage?

Not really. You could do Cloud to Cloud but Cloud like RAID before it is NOT a replacement for proper 3-2-1 backups

Well if you put it like that, then why bother with cloud storage?

If I can't trust cloud storage, I might just buy another external hard drive (or a nas) and backup my data there.

That's a dangerous and naive plan/intent.

Trusting ANYONE ELSE to manage your property is always a bad idea!

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