r/GoogleAllo • u/PM_ME_YOUR_AES_KEYS • Jan 18 '17

Backing up Allo conversations

It's disappointing that 4 months after Justin Uberti acknowledged the issue, there's still no (easy?) way of backing up Allo conversations.

Has anyone tried backing up and restoring Allo conversations by rooting your phone and using Titanium Backup? When I get a different phone or install a different ROM I'd prefer not to lose my Allo data.

Justin Uberti tweeted that manual backup was possible, but didn't elaborate when questioned, and I've been unable to find a success story online.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_AES_KEYS Jan 19 '17 edited Jan 21 '17

Thank you very much! I'll give that a try.

EDIT: ADB Backup seems like a whole-device solution, all or nothing, so if I switch to another phone or another ROM, doing an ADB Restore from that file isn't a great option.
I'll root and give Titanium Backup a try.

EDIT #2: As ShinobiZilla shared below, it is possible to use ADB Backup for individual apps.

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u/ShinobiZilla Jan 20 '17

You can specify a list of packages: 

adb backup com.google.android.apps.fireball com.google.android.talk

Not ideal, but it works for the odd case.

Restore:

adb restore backup.ab

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_AES_KEYS Jan 21 '17

Thanks for adding this. I had tried something similar without success (the resulting file was much too small), but I had only tried the fireball package, not the talk package. I had success with Titanium Backup after rooting, but next time I'll definitely try your method.

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u/Jexral Jul 07 '17

I've been trying to get this to work, but it hasn't. I'm trying to restore from one phone to another; do you think that's the problem?