 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. I've mentioned in a few videos the Google takeout application or program, whatever you want to call it really. It's part of both Gmail and Google workspace. So whether you just own a free Gmail account or you're paying Google every month to have the full set of Google functionalities on your own domain name, which has changed name over the years quite confusingly from Google apps to G Suite to now it's Google workspace at the time I'm recording this. And this is a tool that is accessible from a URL, takeout.google.com. You can also just Google, Google takeout, and you'll be brought to this page. Now I've mentioned this because I've done a lot of videos over the course of this YouTube channel about backup and data protection, which is something I care about a lot. From a backup perspective, Google takeout isn't ideal because it essentially replicates a full backup process. But if you really want to wait to get all your data into Google periodically and create that full backup, it's probably the best way to do it. There's actually lots of third party applications, or I should say a few, such as Synologies, I do Google sync tool and a few backup utilities by third party providers. But they tend to only get parts of the Google ecosystem. And I wanted to make this video partially to show you what I mean by the full Google ecosystem or the full Google imprint or whatever you want to call it. Basically, whenever you sign up for a Gmail or a Google workspace account, each account has access to more services than you might expect. And these are listed in the Google takeout. So you can see you can select multiple ones. I currently have zero of 50 selected. I'm just going to show you sort of quickly what these entail in an A to Z fashion as they're laid out here. And again, the point, one of the points of this video is just to say that when you're doing something like using the Google backup tool in Synology that backs up, let's say your Google Drive, your Google email, and your Google contacts, right? That's three, that's only actually three out of 50 tools in Google. So if you want to really take out all your Google data and protect it and back it up, this is the best of my knowledge, the most complete way to do it. First thing, access log activity, collecting of your account activity logs. So and you can even see if you select it, when there are options for, you know, things you can do in that backup, they'll present them to you like your device activity usage. So these are logs that Google keeps related to your accessing of Google services. I'm not going to, so I'm not actually going to run this take out. So I'm just going to skip through lots of these, but draw your attention nevertheless to important ones. Android device configuration service, Android device attributes, performance data, software versions and account identifiers. So again, this would be if you have phones tied to your Google account. Blogger, if you use Google's blogger service, whether on a paid or free basis, that's for running a blog. Google calendar, a really important one, multiple formats or are available. So when I take it, and you can also select which calendar is to backup for privacy reasons, I'm not going to select show you mine. But if you take in this, you can go more granular by choosing which calendars you want to include in the export. And once I select that, I'd be able to choose the formats between that I want to have them backed up as Google Chrome, your bookmark history and other settings from Google Chrome. That's a very important one for a lot of people. Classic sites. So before Google sites went through a UI overhaul, this is if you want, if you built built sites based on that, then you can access that data here. Google print is the best way knowledge also deprecated. But if you did want to pull it out, you can do it there. Contacts again, important one for many people is everything saved in your Google contacts. And you can select the format, toggling between vCard or comma separated values for each contact. And it's got a little helpful texture vCard. They recommend if you're importing this backup to a program on Mac or iOS, where a CSV is more cross cross format compatible. Crisis user reports, the drive extremely important for most people think about taking their data out of Google for backup. When if you asked your average person, what do you care about? They'd probably tell you Google mail, my Google drive, my contacts and my calendars, right? So the rest of this stuff is kind of either services that a lot of people don't use or stuff that's not so important. Google fit data, if you use Google fit. So that's this is again, I'm just trying to emphasize here that you may not even think about it if you have a Google or Gmail or Google workspace account, that you might have some data sitting in all these repositories. And this is a way to get them out. Google takeout data registration and kind of activity. Google business profile is very important. If you manage a Google, my business profile GMB through your Gmail or Google workspace, take this and you'll be able to get them out. And you can see the type of information and how it's going to be presented to you in a JSON format. For instance, you're going to be getting the reviews that you've received, your applies to them. So really, this is a treasure trove of data that you may not even realize is sitting in Google. The photos and videos you uploaded to accompany that page that's going to be available in the JSON. So maybe it's going to be there as links. Google help communities. When you're interacting on the Google support forums, if you create an account linked to a Google account, you're going to be creating data in the form of creating posts, answering other people's threads, etc. And this box will pull out that data. Google pay Google kind of self-explanatory. If you use Google pay, your safe passes activity using your virtual account numbers, Google photos. This is one that maybe I should have mentioned in the kind of core Google data imprint. I personally have probably terabytes of photos organized into Google albums and clicking this multiple formats and all photo albums included. So if you want to, if you have, if you have a lot and you only want a few albums, then click on this button here and you'll get to choose which ones to extract. Google playbooks, everything related to the Google Play Store, your app installs, ratings and orders. And then these four Google Play console game services. So your Google Play imprint can be taken out through these boxes. We're only about halfway there, so I'm going to just try to keep it as quick as I can. Google shopping order, history, loyalty, addresses, interviews, groups, very important part of the Google data imprint for a lot of people. You might have a group set up. You can sometimes use groups to write email. That's what I use them for. So again, if I tick that we'll get multiple formats. And we can get the group info, the group posts as an inbox, which will include the attachments or group memberships as a CSV. Hangouts, Google home app, device room, home and history information from the home app. And by clicking more info, sometimes they link off to external resources. This one's just a pop up. It's going to be in JSON format and you'll get all that info. Google Keep, very important. Google Mail, Google Maps, Maps Your Places and My Maps. So these are three different selectors, one, two and three. These would all be important for a lot of people. For My Maps, as you can see, they will dump out your data in KML or KMZ. So you can use it in a different navigation program. And then Maps Your Places would be like when you save lists on your Google Maps, like when you save addresses to lists. That would be Maps Your Places and Maps would be, if I just tick this again, multiple formats. My label, sorry, my label places is here, food and drink preferences, navigation feedback. So really everything is a great tool. Google does a very good job at liberating as much data as your average person could possibly create. But it comes up to this big, big laundry list of services. Google News, I'd imagine, is just your, it's coming out as a TXT, list of topicals, articles, magazines and other topics you follow or have saved on Google News. Profile, your Google profile, the settings and images from your Google profile. I'm skipping over some here, Street View, Tasks and finally another biggie in the archive would be YouTube. So that would be, and this could be potentially a huge data repository depending on how active you are. For instance, I have tons and tons of YouTube playlists saved. I have a YouTube channel, the one you're watching on. In fact, I have several YouTube channels. And some of these in order to extract from a specific YouTube channel, for instance, that's not a Google account, that's a brand account. And you need to click on the logo there at the top right and shift into your brand account and then run the backup separately. So after the takeout separately, after you've selected all the services you want, you just use the tick boxes and then click a next step download and choose whether you want it as a zip or a tar GZ. And finally, that'll get your email. So that's Google takeout. There's a lot more to it than meets the eye. Just as a quick FYI, I'm recording this video on the 26th of June and it's possible that this will have completely radically changed by the time you're watching this video, but hopefully not. And that is everything in it. So if you are interested in protecting your Google data, one of the ways you can do that is by periodically downloading Google takeouts from takeout.google.com. And you can either select all 50 services each time, but it might be a very heavy backup. What you can also do is go to deselect everything and go through it one by one, just choosing the places that you commit data to on Google. Hope this video is useful. Thank you for watching and more videos coming soon.