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Backing up Google Drive via Google Takeout (do zilpped files in Drive get zipped over twice)?

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Recently I have discovered something called Google Takeout, which allows you to back up all content found in Google servers and download it for your own convenience.

However, I have a question.

Supposed I have a zipped archive in Google Drive. As we know, zip compresses, and compressed files are smaller and therefore take up less space.

However, if I were to zip a file twice, it could get extremely large.

In particular, if a zip file is part of an archive, then zipping the archive produces an extremely large file.

Is there a way to prevent this in Google Takeout?

How does Google Takeout deal with this?

To circumvent this problem, is it possible for Google Takeout to just create a tarball (without compressing it)?

Thanks.


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