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Does it have any 'restore' ability?

I am hesitant to use any backup solution that doesn't have an equally well tested restore path. Ideally a restore path to another provider too - eg. migrate google photos to icloud photos, with as many tags/labels/metadata preserved as possible.

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I don't think that Google Takeout is a restorable service. It's more of an "Oh snap, I lost my Google Account forever and lost my data" type of recovery option.

Nope, this just gets the ZIPs off and out of Google. My trouble is with the gargantuan size I have to deal with (1TB+). How you get the bytes back out to a format another provider can take is best handled by other already existing projects on GitHub.

And those other already existing projects are useless without the bytes :).

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