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I have a quarterly reminder set up in my iphone reminders app.

Whenever it goes off, I login to Google Takeout and trigger a full download of my data. I then download the file and put it on the hard drive of my computer, which is itself backed up to multiple hard drives via apple time machine (I have one drive i leave always plugged in, and one I plug in during the quarterly sync and then unplug for protection against ransomware or other attacks against my personal computer).

Simple, effective, and I could only ever lose up to a maximum of 3 months of data if banned from google.



Thanks, I've set it up myself. Most of my Google data isn't really important, but my gmail is super important and it's the backup address for dozens if not hundreds of services.




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