Backup and Restore

Backup your chat#

Whenever you need to backup your chat messages, you can use the below method to start backup. The method will backup all the chats and writes to a file. Once backup completed you can get the backup file path from the onSuccess callback.

Argument	Type	Description
BACKUP_LISTENER	BackupListener	listener to observe the backup events

Java
Kotlin

   BackupManager.startBackup(new BackupListener() {
            @Override
            public void onProgressChanged(int percentage) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onSuccess(@NonNull String backUpFilePath) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull String reason) {

            }
        });

while the backup is running, if you want to cancel the backup you can use the below method

Java
Kotlin

BackupManager.cancelBackup();

Restore from a backup file#

Whenever you need to restore the chat messages from the backup file, you can use the below method.

Argument	Type	Description
BACKUP_FILE	File	backup file
RESTORE_LISTENER	RestoreListener	listener to observe the restore events

Java
Kotlin

     RestoreManager.restoreData(BACKUP_FILE, new RestoreListener() {
            @Override
            public void onProgressChanged(int percentage) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onSuccess() {
            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull String reason) {
            }
        });

while the restore backup is running, if you want to cancel the restore operation you can use the below method

Java
Kotlin

RestoreManager.cancelRestore();

Note: Depending on the chat messages size the above methods may take long time for completion.

info

Cancelling restore operation will lead to partial db data, so avoid cancelling restore operation in most scenarios.