A personal backup utility. Single user: its author.
rclone-backup is a set of scheduled scripts that run on one personal computer and copy the author's own data into a single local folder, which is then backed up offsite. It is not a product, not a service, and has no users other than the person who wrote it. There is no server, no account system, and nothing to sign up for.
Some of the data worth backing up only exists in the cloud, where a conventional disk-based backup tool cannot reach it. Google Photos is one such case: it is exported using Google Takeout, which delivers archive files into the author's own Google Drive.
This application signs in to that same Google account and copies those
Takeout archives down to local storage, using
rclone. It requests the
drive.readonly scope, which is read-only: the application never
creates, modifies, or deletes anything in Google Drive.
See the privacy policy for what is accessed, where it is stored, and who else is involved.