Google Takeout is a google product that allows you to download your Google data by product. Today I’m downloading my wife’s photos and we’re planning to migrate these to Zoph. Here’s a picture of what you’ll see on takeout.gooogle.com
For this export I have unselected everything except for Google Photos. Google will then make *.tgz archives of the Photos content for download. Once we have the pictures download verified we can begin to delete the Photos stored on Google.
When you download you will have a choice between .zip and .tgz format. .tgz has a 50GB file size limit and is easier to work with than the 2GB lmit for .zip files. We have three of these downloading now which tip the scales at 133GB. My plan is to reorganize these into a single .tar file and bulk migrate that into Zoph. I’ll make a post about that exercise!
Google Takeout is a valuable tool for migrating your digital life onto FreedomBox. I was not aware of this until recently, so I hope that you’ll see a better path to self hosting with this information too!