In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
  • Tja@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    I’m confused. Wasn’t there a secure backup functionality? How are they “introducing” it?

    I migrated my signal history twice already… Not three times, because last year the backup always failed at 9%, no matter what I tried for a week, losing the better part of a decade of messages in the process.

    Maybe they fixed the functionality?

    • einkorn@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      The current backup system relies on you still having direct access to your phone or a previous backup you moved off your phone yourself.

      What Signal is offering now is an automatic backup system that saves an encrypted copy of your data on their own servers which you can access even if you lost your phone and never made a manual backup.

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        1 month ago

        So what the are really introducing is a cloud storage service for the backups, not a backup functionality. I had my previous backups automatically uploaded in Google drive, which, despite fuck Google and all that, was convenient, secure and free.