As the Google+ shutdown looms, users and communities are wrestling with whether, and how, to archive their data.
One problem we're encountering: Google's Data Take Out pads its archives with gigabytes of redundant data, mostly image files. Archives of up to half a terabyte have been reported.
People are trying to access this data over mobile links, metered links, slow residential broadband, dial-up, or unstable and slow links in Africa, Asia, and Indonesia, with little success. De-duplicating data would help tremendously.
My own was 15 GB, of which over 95% were images, most of little value, though I've no way of excluding them from the collection. The textual content I'm interested in is under 500 MB (and probably a small fraction of that).
Google have been almost completely noncommunicative since the G+ shutdown was announced, with two exceptions of which I'm aware.
The first shortened the time-to-live of the platform by another 4 months, a 40% reduction over the initial notice.
The second ... slightly ... improved instructions for Data Take Out.
(I'm moderator of the Google+ Mass Migration community and am helping coordinate other activities in moving people off Google+, preserving and porting data, and keeping communities together.)
One problem we're encountering: Google's Data Take Out pads its archives with gigabytes of redundant data, mostly image files. Archives of up to half a terabyte have been reported.
People are trying to access this data over mobile links, metered links, slow residential broadband, dial-up, or unstable and slow links in Africa, Asia, and Indonesia, with little success. De-duplicating data would help tremendously.
My own was 15 GB, of which over 95% were images, most of little value, though I've no way of excluding them from the collection. The textual content I'm interested in is under 500 MB (and probably a small fraction of that).
Google have been almost completely noncommunicative since the G+ shutdown was announced, with two exceptions of which I'm aware.
The first shortened the time-to-live of the platform by another 4 months, a 40% reduction over the initial notice.
The second ... slightly ... improved instructions for Data Take Out.
(I'm moderator of the Google+ Mass Migration community and am helping coordinate other activities in moving people off Google+, preserving and porting data, and keeping communities together.)
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