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I'm aware of how to set up chat backups on Android, but this only makes local backups that you have to manually upload or copy.

I'm trying to find a solution where I can set and forget backups to the cloud.

My requirements are:

  1. It doesn't require me exposing the rest of my file system/cloud storage to a third party app without scoping (filesync works, but doesn't meet this criteria).
  2. It can upload directly to a cloud service

So far, no dice :/

Is there some workaround?

P.S. my potential solution is move Signal to my Shelter Work profile, where I do have filesync installed, but then I won't have contacts access, which is a slight pain (and because I don't want to create contacts in my work profile).

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[โ€“] Supernova1051 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

For anyone who may have missed it, cloud backups are coming https://signalupdateinfo.com/news/cloud-backups.html

They're already testing the backup functionality with the "desktop history sync" feature - https://community.signalusers.org/t/help-us-test-desktop-history-syncing/65452 so I think its very likely we'll see Android/iOS cloud backups live by mid-next year at the latest (just a guess, not taking any bets).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was not aware, thanks for sharing :)