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0 pointsnar0011y ago0 comments

Wouldn't using Google Takeout do that already? I thought that was the point, to take out your data?

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Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.

WhyNotHugo1y ago

You can pick the maximum size of zipballs. I think the max is 10GB? Or 50GB?

It’s annoying in that it can take up to a week for the first mail to reply. And you can’t automate it, so no automatic backups.

mandevil1y ago

When I did this recently the max zip was 4GB- and that was only from doing zip64, regular old zip was 2GB limit. TGZ could do up to 50GB.

But these limits are weird because while file size limits do exist, they don't match Google's limits: 4GB is the limit for regular zip, zip64 has a limit of 16 exabytes. And TGZ's limit of 50GB shows that they they have the internal infrastructure to support building larger files too.

So, other than that most of their customers use Windows and they want to make takeout as annoying as possible, do they put that limit on it?

philips1y ago

Yes, no automation and no incremental backups makes things so annoying.

IncreasePosts1y ago

You can have it automatically upload to dropbox or a few other hosting services which I don't remember. And then you can download it with one click.

philips1y ago

I tried dozens of times to get it to upload to OneDrive and it always failed.

abraham1y ago

You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.

philips1y ago

Gah, thank you. The drop down is one of those terrible ones with no scroll bar and only three entries so I have to do the ol 'scroll wheel and hope' to discover more options.

mandevil1y ago

Only on TGZ files, not zip, which maxes out at 4GB. (This is not because of a file size limitation. The only way to get 4GB is through zip64, which has a file size limit measured in exabytes.)

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shanemhansen1y ago

The nice thing about Google Takeout is that sometimes, if you retry often enough, it works.

The frequent failures to generate my takeout are annoying though.

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philips1y ago

Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.

WhyNotHugo1y ago

You can pick the maximum size of zipballs. I think the max is 10GB? Or 50GB?

It’s annoying in that it can take up to a week for the first mail to reply. And you can’t automate it, so no automatic backups.

mandevil1y ago

When I did this recently the max zip was 4GB- and that was only from doing zip64, regular old zip was 2GB limit. TGZ could do up to 50GB.

So, other than that most of their customers use Windows and they want to make takeout as annoying as possible, do they put that limit on it?

philips1y ago

Yes, no automation and no incremental backups makes things so annoying.

IncreasePosts1y ago

You can have it automatically upload to dropbox or a few other hosting services which I don't remember. And then you can download it with one click.

philips1y ago

I tried dozens of times to get it to upload to OneDrive and it always failed.

abraham1y ago

You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.

philips1y ago

Gah, thank you. The drop down is one of those terrible ones with no scroll bar and only three entries so I have to do the ol 'scroll wheel and hope' to discover more options.

mandevil1y ago

Only on TGZ files, not zip, which maxes out at 4GB. (This is not because of a file size limitation. The only way to get 4GB is through zip64, which has a file size limit measured in exabytes.)

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shanemhansen1y ago

The nice thing about Google Takeout is that sometimes, if you retry often enough, it works.

The frequent failures to generate my takeout are annoying though.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse