This allows me and my wife to easily share photos of our daughter with each other, as well as have a backup of everything we have locally on my NAS.
Next step is to sync this of to several other storage places in case of cryptolocker or the NAS dies.
Must be new as I was looking for a tool like this a few years ago and nothing existed.
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.
>Roughley lost data including emails, photos, documents and diagrams that he had developed for his work. "My account and all its data is gone," he said.
Imagine all your photos were in Google Photos and you cant get it any more because you have somehow violated their policy? All the beautiful memories of your boy or daughter when they were young or as a baby.
Imagine the song you make, the video you took.
The Cloud, should be used as an OffSite backup. I should always have the option to have my Data, stored in a box in my house, in my own property. Those who want the convenience of cloud ( iCloud, Google's X ) can do so. But there should always be an option to have your backup not in the cloud. ( And no, iTunes Backup is not that option, it is ridiculously complicated for any average user )