Restore from Android backup

[kxzaon]

Hi, I don’t find any details in the wiki or manpage and I don’t find any related existing issue.

I would like to “restore” a backup that was done on an android phone, onto signal-cli. The goal here is to keep secure (easy backups), the primary device managed by signal-cli and have several linked devices as Desktop or iPad synchronised to it.

But I can’t start over with a new registered account, I need to keep my many years old history for this new primary signal-cli account. For that I can only hope that signal-cli is supporting the restore of a android backup file. Is this something that have been already considered?

As a workaround, I’m thinking about an old android phone that acts as primary device for linked devices. Which is less sexy.

Thank you. Regards,

[SeqBra]

signal cli does not support transfer or restore yet you could export your messages to html and use signal cli as you described, as primary device https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#linux_packages good luck im actually writing a signal client to do what you describe here but nothing ready yet

[AsamK]

Indeed restoring from Android backups is not supported yet, and might never be supported. signal-cli also doesn't store a message history so restoring the backup is not that useful.