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Learning to back up my messages

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I’ve been looking around to find a good, privacy respecting way to sync my messages between phones. I decided I’m going to use SyncThing so I don’t have to mess around with a server. The only problem with this is that I haven’t been able to find any apps that work on modern Android that routinely backup and import messages from a file/folder into the messages database. Does anyone know any app that might do this?

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NedPool@eviltoast.org
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I’ve used SMS Backup & Restore for several years to do exactly what you describe.

Everything backs up to a local folder on my phone and I sync to my home server. The app can sync backups to a cloud storage, but it isn’t required.

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flubba86@lemmy.world
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Same. This is exactly what I do. I’m on my 5th Android phone since 2009, and I still have all my call logs and SMSs going back until then, because I backup from my old phone and restore to my new phone on every upgrade.

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mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com
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Same, came here to suggest this one but was beaten to it.

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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There’s even an OSS tool for converting it all to Excel now.

Its on Github, let me look for it.

SMS Backup & Restore has been my go to since about 2010, across 5 phones.

Edit: https://github.com/prettydeep/sms-log-convert.git

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