 Hello there, welcome back to Daniels Tech World on YouTube Medium and at Danielrosil.Tech. So for today's video, the backup approach I want to talk about is backing up YouTube videos. So a lot of people, content creators on YouTube and whatnot are interested in how to back their stuff up, their videos up. So there are a few ways to go about this problem, well, this requirement and that was kind of a Freudian slip because I do want to basically explain the drawback to doing a Google data export. Before I show a couple of workarounds to this problem essentially, I want to just explain a thing about backups and why basically doing a Google data export is not ideal. So this is not my graphic firstly, as you can see this is from a site called business2community.com. In backups, there are three types of common backup approaches that are used. The first one is full backups. This was the classic one and it kind of does what it says on the tin. Each time you download the whole primary data source and then back it up somewhere else. So I've talked a lot on this channel about the 321 backup rule, about how you want to always have your primary data source, which can be anything. So let's say the primary data source in this case is our YouTube video. So that lives on somewhere in YouTube's content delivery network and there are CDN and of course YouTube is party Google. So that's where that data lives. Now if you run a full Google takeout and then you upload it somewhere else, it's not an optimal approach because videos are quite heavy and you're basically downloading and this is of course if you don't export it and I'll show in this video a sort of workaround for that problem. So let's say you download the full, you do a Google takeout, download the full export and then you put that up to Google Drive each time, then you're doing a full backup. Now I've seen a couple of videos about backing up YouTube that suggest exactly doing that, backing it up to Google Drive and I would just like to say that from my perspective I don't think that's a very good idea because as I mentioned, YouTube is owned by Google and when we look at stuff like the 321 rule, our primary objective is to, we have our backup and two copies, those all need to be on different storage media, ideally that means not on the same physical piece of hardware. Additionally one of those needs to be off site. So we're taking our primary data source being YouTube and we really want to create two different backups of that. So to bring up my own graphic this time, this is YouTube, our primary data source and what we really want to do is keep one onsite backup that's somewhere on our network whether it's on our computer or on like I have in this tab over here, my network attached storage device which is a thing that's very popular with a lot of YouTubers for this exact purpose for backup storage. Now if we are backing up our Google takeout or YouTube channel here, we want to put that to somewhere else in the cloud because if we're just putting it to another part of the Google Cloud I would argue that in the event that you're locked out of your Google account, naturally you're probably also going to be locked out of your YouTube account and there's also overlap between the infrastructure managed by Google and that managed by YouTube. So I think it makes a lot more sense to put it up to a different cloud and the clouds I would recommend for backup storage, Backlays B2 is incredibly cheap and backup centric, it's the one I use. People also like backing up to AWS as three, particularly Glacier for long time archiving and Wasabi so some of them are more complicated than the others, the exact tools vary. You can also back up to Dropbox and Box.net and other type of cloud storage like this but they're really more optimized for storing stuff like documents and backup and archiving really isn't their purpose. If you are a regular YouTuber and have a lot of data to upload and back up and you want to take this approach seriously then in my opinion it's probably worth signing up for something like Backlays just to have dedicated really really scalable backup storage available for your videos. So what I have done in order to demonstrate, so let's just take, I've created three ten second videos and uploaded these videos to my demo account here on YouTube so this one just shows the number one, number two, number three and so on and so forth. Now the simplest approach that all these videos skip when they're talking about backing up YouTube is to just back up the videos before you put them on YouTube. So if you are a professional videographer this is probably actually not even going to be enough for you by which I mean that you probably want to back up your pre-edit version of the video, you'd probably want to back up the footage, the outtakes, you probably in fact have a good backup strategy in place but if you are more on the lightweight scale and certainly these screencasts that I'm recording like the one that you're watching that I am backing up, these aren't particularly valuable to me, I'm at the start of my YouTubeing career and expedition let's say so I'm happy to basically just back up the files after I run them through YouTube and basically once you put files up to YouTube they're going to compress, there might also be a conversion process but there will be a compression process so you'll notice that if you upload a 100 megabyte MP4 to YouTube whether you use Google takeout or you use this option which I'll show in a second just downloading it like this you will notice that the file is smaller so I'm not sure exactly about the quality difference in that if there is one it says that there is no quality loss but I find that hard to believe and I have read about people finding abstracts in their videos they downloaded this way but for my purpose right now it's worth perhaps a slight drop in quality in order to you know cut the file size by about half and that means for me it's less data up to the cloud so that's the only reason that in my opinion it makes sense to actually download after uploading to YouTube otherwise if you are concerned with preserving the quality of your videos it makes more sense to upload them at the start so there are of course ways to do this without an NAS but as I have a Synology NAS on my network I'm going to show it this way so basically these are you see one two three the MP4s I have created and I've created this folder I've created a volume in fact that I've attached cloud sync 2 and that syncs up to B2 I actually have my cloud sync composite at the moment but it's generally running on schedule overnight so that's easy to set up on what what this function does just in case you are interested in getting one of these NASs although they are a little bit pricey but if you're doing a lot of YouTube you tubing that might be worth it that'll allow you to basically whatever I drop into this folder you can create a sync job a bi-directional or a just a up to the cloud job or down from the cloud job upload or download to stuff like you know a lot of different types of cloud storage including B2 as well as S3 and as well as wasabi amongst others so basically you can just you can either do this you can just use the upload button or I can just drag and drop now I'm using Linux as my operating system so it might look a bit different on Windows but you can then click overwrite and what it will show in a second so that's pretty much instantaneous I'm going to actually delete one of those now and that's because I'm going to show a kind of workaround approach in a second to doing this incrementally now the most commonly recommended way to back up a YouTube channel is to do a Google takeout and I'm going to show how it's done but bearing in mind the caveat that just doing it this way and downloading the full amount because in a good backup strategy that complies with the 321 rule you want to create another cloud copy and that should not be as I said in my opinion Google Drive for that reason this is not really and that's that's why it's all the points made by a lot of people that Google takeout is not really a backup tool it's a data export tool for users that want to liberate their data from the clutches of Google for you know partially for compliance rules Google haven't you know roll this out completely philanthropically but also for you know just people that want to get their data out so this isn't a backup tool because if this were if Google had some great backup functionality in an ideal world they would allow you to you know create a remote location for your backups and as you made as you uploaded new backups to new videos to YouTube it would just extract only those that would be an example of a good backup tool but this is just a export functionality so firstly deselect all then just select the YouTube channel then within YouTube it actually by default includes everything to do with your YouTube channel so you'll get stuff like playlist as well so I would just select videos I actually when I'm doing a Google takeout and I do use Google takeout because it is you know a way to get all your stuff out of Google I actually don't do YouTube I do YouTube separately because YouTube videos being heavy tend to really bump up the file size and when you're uploading stuff to the cloud so I like to do is I just do videos separately so that I can do them in some kind of and I'm using incrementally and differentially those terms very loosely here just to me not moving full backups up and down every time so just videos click okay and if you are using Linux as this computer is then you can avail yourself of the TGZ format which can fit up to 50 gigabytes instead of 2 versus zip file in each compressed archive that just means that you'll get less files and of course with Linux it's easy to extract TGZs with Windows you can as well you just need some extra software so that's it and then just create this export so I'm actually cheating a small bit in this video because I've already taken this export downloaded it extracted it to this folder called takeout and this is how it's going to look basically for some reason even though I actually only selected video I still got these history playlist and subscription channels but this has my three videos and this is basically how YouTube gave them back to me so when I was talking about a kind of workaround that you can use Google data export and your file system in order to kind of back stuff up without all that work involved so what I was referring to what I was referring to was this so let's say I'm just gonna get rid of these JSON files and you could do this more intelligently whether you are on Windows or Linux but I'm just gonna manually delete them because there's only three here so what I can do is just copy this in to this folder on the NAS and then I can just select skip about this is obviously going to do if we take a look in the upload lock here as you can see one and two have been skipped and three has been uploaded so if you think about what's happened here and let's get away from the fact that these are five second videos with nothing but the number one and let's pretend this was a takeout of 300 or 400 videos and they were much bigger than that then basically only video three is going to be synced up to the cloud using cloud sync so this is a methodology that I was using for a while you just need to make sure if you're gonna be doing this that you don't edit the file names so that when you run the takeout again and copy and paste again that they're you know otherwise they're not going to be skipped now another way you could do this if you don't have a Synology NAS I'm going to stick with Linux just for a second here you could use something like our sync and you could have a folder that syncs up to your cloud storage and you create an our sync job between that folder syncing up and the takeout folder and that would only move in the new stuff if you're on Windows I'm sure there's a way to do that as well and just describing in general the methodology now the final way to do this would be the way that I actually do it and that's the basically as I upload stuff to YouTube I wait for the conversion and compression to occur and then I simply download the MP4 and I upload it to the folder on my NAS and that then that then syncs to the cloud that way so in other words instead of doing a Google takeout and going through that whole process every three months I do it every single time I upload a video now there's actually an advantage to that and that's that if you think about it for backups the best backups you can have usually you know you want to typically if you're doing backups for stuff like a computer system you will usually keep a few snapshots but for YouTube videos where your concern is not losing losing stuff or having backup copies you know if you're only taking a Google takeout let's say going through that process every six months no let's say every six weeks then anything between now and the next time you run it you do stand to lose if you get locked out of your YouTube account so for me the best way to protect my data is just every single time I upload a YouTube video I put that into my NAS and it does take me only a couple of seconds because this interface is so easy to use but it just means that you know there's no as soon as I've uploaded a video I then download it and then it's backed up and I never need to worry about taking Google takeouts I don't necessarily think that that's the correct approach or or even that one is better than the other just that those are two options and they're both fine and legitimate and as I said at the start of this video if you are doing professional videography you know at a higher level and you're concerned with getting your original footage then you probably would want to not trust YouTube's compression at all and you probably just want to back up the final production role of the video and back that up in this way without backing up what goes up to YouTube at all because ultimately what goes up to YouTube is a compressed version of your video run through YouTube's own systems so you know if you're a professional and you really are concerned about preserving the quality in the backup then you'll probably be probably be running your own backup system that doesn't involve capturing the YouTube video format at all so I hope that's been helpful those are a few ways to back up YouTube just to quickly reiterate you can firstly just back up the video files initially which is what I've actually just described you can run a Google takeout by going on to Google takeout and only opting for YouTube and then going into YouTube and deselecting the other things just grabbing those videos and you don't need to do a full backup each time in fact it's not recommended it wastes a lot of data and it's that besides wasting data it's just going to be slower if you're moving that up to a cloud so just figure out some way that works for you I showed what worked on my system here with Synology DSM figure out some way that works for you to just copy in the new videos and then upload that to the cloud or finally you can just download each time you upload and put that up but I just do just a final reminder for good backups you should follow the 321 rule so your YouTube data should be copied onto two backups backup sources one of those should be on to a cloud an off-site backup location and as I said I do recommend not backing up to Google Drive just to diversify yourself away from Google and back it up to somebody else's cloud hope that video has been of use to somebody if you want to get in touch my email is youtube at danielrosil.com with 2000rosil and my website at danielrosil.com thank you for watching