It’s been some years that I am not able to log in to my Google account, because I stopped using it for a very long time any Google product, and now even providing my password, they say they can not know if it is me or now…

They send me to this support page which seems like I have lost my account with all the data and stuff I had from when I was younger…

I don’t think this is normal or ethic to do (I know Google has been never ethic), but this makes me so angry because I never wanted to lose all that data…

Do they basically know every people networks? And if you don’t let them know… you lose access to Google? … 😠

    • happyhippo@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      Probably if you Google it or search on the Vorta website.

      The short version, after some research, is that Borg is better suited for Linux users as it involves ssh key based authentication to the backup server hosted on borgbase.com.

      Whereas restic is maybe simpler to setup if you’re on Windows.

      The good news is that, whichever “protocol” you use, borgase.com provides cheap cloud storage supporting both, for as little as 24€/year for 250 GB. It’s the plan I have and it fits comfortably my ~130GB of Google Photos + all the other Gapps exports (~10GB gmail + 15GB gdocs being the biggest offenders after photos).

      You can read a lot about this by just Googling Borg vs restic.

      Both Borg and restic are just the backend apps, you’ll want a frontend as well, be it a CLI or a separate GUI application. Since I use Borg on Linux I paired it with Vorta, simple GUI and has scheduled backups and alerts you if they haven’t run in a while, plus you can mount your backups to local paths to inspect their contents and extract data selectively.

      Dunno if the same is possible with restic, but there are also GUIs for that, for sure.

      Enjoy!

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean, is there a tutorial on how Borg gets the Takeout files ? Do I have to do that manually or is there an automated process to hand over the take out files for me ?

        • happyhippo@feddit.it
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not that I’m aware of, I’m doing the Takeout part by myself.

          You can however request the Takeout to be recurring, e.g. once every N months. Or you can just request a one time takeout.

          I did the latter just to know how much space it takes, but I’m going for the recurring ones from now on. Google will send you a mail once the Takeout archive(s) is/are ready for download.