[tpolzer]

The cloud is a backup. Just like any other backup you should test restore or at least verify the data regularly.

I trust Google more than a random hard drive (to not lose random bits) in this respect.

And unless your admin configured it away, GSuite allows takeout just like GMail afaik?

[jacquesm]

> GSuite allows takeout just like GMail afaik

Hm, interesting ok, I will look into that. I didn't think of using takeout. Thank you.

The only option I found before was to allow some random third party application access to all my files which was not an option.

[tpolzer]

It's a bit annoying for restore since it can take hours to be ready for download. Still better than Amazon Glacier though :D

[jacquesm]

Better something than nothing. They must have changed this recently, even a few months ago attempts to bulk download Gsuite data led to error messages.

[hiptobecubic]

It's Gmail, not GMail. :)

Also, I believe all Google products have to support takeout, just like they have to support deletion within whatever the legally mandated time frame is (months?).