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Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

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They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...

Speaking of that, what is the best way to make a backup of the contents of an email account (not specifically Gmail, but IMAP in general)?

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Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

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post #15

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Definitely feel vindicated, it's the 3-2-1 rule 3 copies 2 different forms of media 1 offsite

Does three copies include the original?

I believe it does traditionally, yes. Your data plus two backup copies. Personally I'd say no though, just for the sake of having more backups (3 2 1 is minimum, not strict!).

Partially unrelated I consider "cloud" as its own media type to avoid the pedantics of me storing files on a spinning disk and the cloud provider does too. Chances are they have server grade disks and their own backups. On that note, their backups are not my backups. Their backups are never my backups.

If they save my butt one day, awesome. But that day was already terrible if I'd managed to lose all of my backups.

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

#34

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They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...

Speaking of that, what is the best way to make a backup of the contents of an email account (not specifically Gmail, but IMAP in general)?

Not sure if it's the best way or not, but I use offlineimap...

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

#35

I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.

There is a certain feeling of frustration that comes from doing an unfamiliar and difficult technical task when you aren't at all used to doing such things. My wife's best explaination of it is that it feels like gears in your mind are grinding without oil: not moving smoothly and generating a lot of heat. I infer that many other people feel this way about web hosting, or services like weebly would not exist.

The real problem is a lack of backup. There should be a service that you can pay to have it periodically crawl your website and generate a zip file, so the real problem is that he didn't use that.

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

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Admittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.

Here is a one-click service to backup everything in your google account. Email, google drive, youtube, location history, blogger blogs, bookmarks, calendar, literally ever google service. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

What format does this produce? A bit of googling suggests mbox. What happens to 'labels' on emails?

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

#37

I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.

If the end-goal is not to lose shit, then self-hosting isn't helping you with that.

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

#38

I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.

As a web dev/tech freelancer, I come across typical end-users very frequently and you would be _amazed_ at the amount of ignorance about the issues like domains, hosting etc. prevailing amongst them.

While people like us (you, me, and all others here) take such things in our stride, the scenario is vastly different so far as average end-users at large are concerned.

Re: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

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Ah yes, the "customer support by Internet shaming" strategy, the only approach that appears to work with inexplicable Google takedowns.

Given that Google's customer support has autistic tendencies to put it mildly, I do not feel sorry for them
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