Gargantuan Takeout Rocket – Google Takeout Transloader to Azure
Been broken for 4 months, just got back to fixing it and validating. Figured I'll repost this. Gargantuan Takeout Rocket (GTR) is a toolkit to make the pain of backing up a Google account to somewhere that's not Google a lot less. At the moment the only destination supported is Azure. It's a guide, a browser extension, a Cloudflare worker to deploy, and Azure storage to configure. This sounds like buzzword creep, but believe me, every piece is extremely important. It's very cheap to run/serverless. You can backup a Google account at about $1/TB. Compared to renting a VPS to do…
Gargantuan Takeout Rocket – Google Takeout Transloader to Azure launched on February 21, 2023 with 98 votes, #468 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Gargantuan Takeout Rocket is a toolkit that helps users back up Google accounts to Azure storage. It combines a guide, browser extension, Cloudflare worker, and Azure configuration to automate the process. Designed for developers and users seeking data portability, it offers a serverless approach that costs approximately $1 per terabyte, avoiding the complexity of managing virtual servers or juggling authentication URLs. The tool handles what can be automated while keeping manual steps minimal.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
🚀 Backup Google Takeout archives (YouTube channel and Google Photos) at 1GB/s+ to Azure Storage periodically with minimal human toil and financial cost - nelsonjchen/gargantuan-takeout-rocket
In the maker’s words, at launch
Been broken for 4 months, just got back to fixing it and validating. Figured I'll repost this. Gargantuan Takeout Rocket (GTR) is a toolkit to make the pain of backing up a Google account to somewhere that's not Google a lot less. At the moment the only destination supported is Azure. It's a guide, a browser…
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