[gwlperl]

Just a question, does google's photo storage store the bits exactly as you send them?

[encryptluks2]

I've got a strategy of saving a local copy and then transferring to Google Photos, then using rclone sync those to Google Drive and purge local copies that I remove from Google Photos. It works really well and assures me that Google won't strip any metadata or reprocess the images.

[xyzzy_plugh]

In my experience, yes. You have to use Google Takeout to get the full bits back.