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title: "let's Back itsup"
url: "https://pub.yah.qa/7/internet2gdrive/32/let-s-back-itsup"
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# I Tried to get the Entire Internet on Google Drive

It started, as all bad ideas do, with confidence in a tar file.


<img src="https://pub.yah.qa/u/image-daea854a-e372-4539-8458-22d402260f7c-d6nUnO.webp" style="width: 50%;" />

It was not even a Google Workspace nor Google <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleOne/comments/1eyibo8/comment/ljddvrd/"
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One..
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Just with a basic <a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en"
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Gmail</a> (Google in-house Mail).

Not *earned* confidence.  
Not *researched* confidence.  
The kind of confidence that shows up at **2:39 a.m.** and says:

> *“Yeah. I could back up the internet. How big could it be?”*