[crazygringo]

Wait, when did Google Takeout start supporting a) backing up to other cloud providers and b) backing up on a regular basis?

Last I used it, probably a year ago, those options were not there. I'm 99% sure. And I can find lots of forum posts over the past decade complaining that Takeout doesn't support uploading to other cloud providers, and that it doesn't support any kind of automation.

When did Google add this?

[abirkill]

I can't speak to the cloud provider support, as I don't use it, but they have supported scheduled backups since at least June 2019, as I have locally-stored backups from scheduled Takeout jobs going back that far.

Bear in mind that the scheduling support is extremely basic -- the only option available is to schedule six exports, one every two months. You can't change the frequency or the number.

Also, you can't pick when the schedule starts, so if you want backups every two months indefinitely, you have to remember to schedule the next set of backups two months after the final backup of the previous scheduled job finished.

It's better than nothing, but only just.