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).

  • shortwavesurferEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I save my backup code in my password manager and I’m able to just paste it from there into signal in order to verify it.

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Kde connect can usually share clipboard contents too. I use that for for copying and pasting stuff between the phone and laptop.

      • shortwavesurferEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I use the TalkBack screen reader and it has a copy last utterance to clipboard. So I was able to just select the passphrase so that it was spoken aloud and then copy that text to clipboard.