I hope this attempt to boil down a lot of options and information to the simple necessities is useful for some of you!

LINKS
Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com/
Insync (affiliate link): https://www.insynchq.com?fp_ref=thoroughmas
rclone: https://rclone.org/

Other alternate Google Photos downloaders:
https://photosdownloader.com/
https://github.com/NicholasDawson/Goo...

CONTENTS
0:00 Why backup Google data?
0:53 Preamble
1:34 What you need
1:52 Overview of backup plan
2:32 Google Takeout
5:32 Applications for Drive & Photos
6:45 Insync vs rclone part 1
7:50 Options for Google Photos
9:12 Insync vs rclone part 2
10:13 Insync setup
13:13 rclone setup
19:19 Google Photos on rclone
21:51 Script for multiple rclone remotes
24:20 Wrap up

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