--- title: "Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure" url: https://daily.dev/posts/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure-q8xqyap6f source_url: https://jakewharton.com/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure type: article source: "Jake Wharton" published: 2026-07-05T07:13:19.833Z updated: 2026-07-05T07:14:06.622Z tags: ["linux", "docker", "self-hosting"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure **[Jake Wharton](https://daily.dev/sources/jakewharton)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jake Wharton, a Google employee, outlines his personal strategy for eliminating Google as a single point of failure for his data. Rather than abandoning Google services, he keeps them as the source of truth while building redundant backups using rclone for Google Drive, a custom Docker container using Chrome DevTools Protocol for Google Photos originals, ZFS-based home server storage with snapshot policies, and rsync.net for off-site cloud backup with ZFS snapshot replication. NextCloud is used to make the backed-up data accessible. The setup follows the 3-2-1 backup rule and is orchestrated via Docker Compose. Gmail backup remains an unsolved problem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I back up my phone to a NAS with Immich and Syncthing, and it's replaced Google Cloud entirely](https://daily.dev/posts/i-back-up-my-phone-to-a-nas-with-immich-and-syncthing-and-it-s-replaced-google-cloud-entirely-d1anfxrm5) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I had RAID, snapshots, and backups, but one thing almost cost me everything](https://daily.dev/posts/i-had-raid-snapshots-and-backups-but-one-thing-almost-cost-me-everything-gix2gmm4c) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [No backup, no cry](https://daily.dev/posts/no-backup-no-cry-bl8deav5b) · David Heinemeier Hansson · 180 upvotes · 7 comments - [Google Drive's 5GB limit forced me to rethink how I use cloud storage](https://daily.dev/posts/google-drive-s-5gb-limit-forced-me-to-rethink-how-i-use-cloud-storage-kzm6lfq81) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure-q8xqyap6f)