You can also schedule Google Takeout, which gives you a nice .zip or .tgz with mbox files, in addition to all of your other Google information. I have it set to deliver one of these backups every two months automatically.
How would you do google checkout once they have banned your account with no access ? Even if you have done it majority of people suffering from this fate will not have google checkout data or access to it !
True. But I was replying to a comment which mentioned using IMAP sync as a backup; both that solution and Google Takeout require access to your account.
does this include absolutely everything from your Google account, like all emails with attachments, google photos with album data, youtube videos from your channel, etc? If not, does someone know of a guide out there on how to export all of one's data from Google?
Yes. I can verify that it contains email attachments, Google Photos files (along with metadata in JSON format), and YouTube videos. There is quite a bit of other information included as well, some of which I didn't even know I had created.
That's actually amazing. thanks for your response! I've been slowly working on detaching from google this year due to stories like this, but the thought of manually downloading all my data was rather overwhelming. Glad to know they at least offer this feature
