WhatsApp Nuked 5 Years of My Texts and Media—Don't Let it Happen to You

Although I don't need that long backup, but the way WA backup are designed, its indeed very poor.
Yesterday was trying to restore my backup, through cloud and then through new transfer backup mode and both failed.
Then again I tried using cloud backup and it worked but transfer chat method never worked for me and its always hit or miss.
Its a nightmare restoring WA backups !
 
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It's indeed very unreliable, just last week it was giving me some error because it just couldn't complete the backup to Google drive. Already forgotten how I solved it, but I had to spend 3-4 hours on it. Setting up a new Android phone is the only time I'm tempted to give in to the Apple ecosystem.
 
The comments in the HTG article explain how to make and restore a local WhatsApp backup better, more completely and accurately than the article itself...People expecting to backup and restore multiple gigabytes of (mostly useless) WhatsApp media to and from cloud are in for a surprise
 
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