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WhatsApp backups on Android will soon count toward your Google Account storage (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate that it's still not possible to set your own storage for backups. Neither WhatsApp nor Android's system backup support anything besides Google Drive.

[โ€“] tinsuke 4 points 1 year ago

For apps that don't disallow regular backups (like WhatsApp does), Lineage OS and Calyx support Seedvault, which is a 1:1 alternative to Google Drive, except it saves the backup as an encrypted file.