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Storing all your work in a Google account and then getting locked out of it for some reason is also kind of bad.

Getting locked out of online accounts is the 21st century's version of the twentieth-century's hard drive crash: "It's not a matter if of, but a matter of when."

So you should have a second repository of any data you have in any account, in a different location, provider, hard drive, or whatever. Because it's only a matter of time until you need it.

One, I didn’t say Google, but two, what are you doing that’s getting you locked out of a Google account for work?

Firewalls, people.

Sometimes nothing.

Say, logging into your account in a fashion which trips whatever heuristic they have for deciding if your account is compromised or just 'breaking their terms of service' with no further explanation. For example using 'suspicious' IPs like from some cloud provider, or from multiple countries in a short period of time, as these algorithms were written post-internet but pre-air travel. Who knows, honestly.

And yes this has happened to me, coincidentally after a period of travelling.

Some backed up hard drives in my house and a family member's are probably more reliable.

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