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988 points keyboardJones | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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y7 ◴[08 Sep 25 16:59 UTC] No.45170722[source]▶
Without paying for remote backups, can I just manage my own backup on my own hard drive, and restore it when I want to?
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jewel ◴[08 Sep 25 17:06 UTC] No.45170810[source]▶
Yes! That has been supported for a long while. At least on Android, go to Settings -> Chats -> Chat Backups. Set up a schedule and a passphrase and a folder, and it will export your chats every day.

I do that and then sync that folder with another computer using SyncThing.

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joshjob42 ◴[08 Sep 25 17:29 UTC] No.45171137[source]▶
Only on Android, not iOS.
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cherryteastain ◴[08 Sep 25 18:16 UTC] No.45171820{3}[source]▶
It's not Signal's fault that Apple does not let you access the most basic feature of an operating system - the filesystem.
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1. nar001 ◴[08 Sep 25 21:36 UTC] No.45174332{4}[source]▶
They did support it since they released the Files app, as Signal shows. Nothing changed all these years, yet they're now rolling out backups for iOS too, so the technology is already there.