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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by mehrdadn on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:03PM (#25296601)
I don't know but I would suggest (at least) logging into the account and doing something (uploading a file, sending an email, etc.) every year.
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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by josephg on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:19PM (#25296791)
I would also suggest yearly doing a full backup of the account:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

Gmail backup archives are easy enough to load and read in other email programs, if google's storage ever becomes unreliable for you.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by snazz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:32PM (#25296940)
Google even lets you schedule them every two months, which works nicely for me.
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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by pnutjam on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:42PM (#25298322)
I do daily backups using the API.
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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by snazz on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:38AM (#25302080)
Oh, clever. Is there an open-source solution for this that I could look at?
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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by pnutjam on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:37PM (#25325474)
This is what I use.

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

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