I'm in a critical situation with a Google Takeout download and need advice:
- Takeout creation took months due to repeated delays (it kept saying it would start 4 days from today)
- Final archive is 5.3TB (Google Photos only) was much larger than expected since the whole account is only 2.2 TB and thus the upload to Dropbox failed
- Importantly, over 1TB of photos were deleted between archive creation and now, so I can't recreate it
- Archive consists of 2530 files, mostly 2GB each
- Download seems to be throttled at ~15MBps, regardless of how many files I start
- Only 3 days left to download before expiration
Current challenges:
- Dropbox sync failed due to size
- Impossible to download everything at current speed
- Clicking each link manually isn't feasible
I recall reading about someone rapidly syncing their Takeout to Azure. Has anyone successfully used a cloud-to-cloud transfer method recently? I'm very open to paid solutions and paid help (but will be wary and careful so don't get excited if you are a scammer).
Any suggestions for downloading this massive archive quickly and reliably would be greatly appreciated. Speed is key here.