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Learning to back up my messages

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

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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flubba86reply
lemmy.world

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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Parasite_Messiah
lemm.ee

While it isn't routine, I quite like QUIK, as it allows at least manual backup of messages to a folder you set within your phone, it can be found on F-Droid, although I'm unsure if it's within any repositories or just found within. QUIK

My apologies it isn't exactly what you're looking for.

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ExperimentalGuyreply
programming.dev

That looks promising, much appreciated. I should also mention I also mean to back up MMS along with SMS.

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Parasite_Messiahreply
lemm.ee

Then I'm glad to be of at least partial assistance with your search. Ah, I'm not entirely sure if it does, and I can't presume so due to it including the entirety of the messages, and I unfortunately can't check, as I don't have any MMS to save.

I do however hope it does, but if not, I wish you the best of luck with your search, and that others will chime in with more effective solutions.

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