Securely Backup & Restore Your Chat

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 Mirrorfly.onBackupSuccess event listeners.

Argument	Type	Description
enableEncryption	`bool`	Specifies whether the backup data should be encrypted or not.

 Mirrorfly.startBackup(enableEncryption: enableEncryption);

Cancel Backup#

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

 Mirrorfly.cancelBackup();

Note: Backup related events are observed through event listeners. check the event listeners details here.

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
backupFilePath	`String`	backup file path.

  Mirrorfly.restoreBackup(backupPath: backupFilePath);
 

Cancel Restore#

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

 Mirrorfly.cancelRestore();

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

Note: Restore related events are observed through event listeners. check the event listeners details here.

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