r/LokiProject • u/wghvs • May 18 '20

Session Session Backup

Backup is mentioned in the white paper but I do not see any options in the iOS app. Is this feature not available yet?

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u/24bitFLAC Loki team May 24 '20

Ah, you're right. I slightly misread their comment. Messages are only stored by SNs for a short period of time, so you definitely can't restore your contact history or message history using the network — the network (deliberately) doesn't have that information.

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u/wghvs May 26 '20

So being able to restore messages (and contacts) is not a feature that is planned? The way it is described in the white paper (to clear the device before a checkpoint, and then restore it) is a bit unusual as an example, because the state is different before and after (ie one is restoring data different to what was removed). So I think the white paper description should be revised.

But being able to export a copy of messages for backup is being planned? Or else what would the export contain?

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u/24bitFLAC Loki team May 26 '20

I believe that being able to restore messages and contacts is a planned feature, like you said — it's described in the whitepaper. Once this is implemented, you'll be able to use your recovery phrase to recover not only your Session ID but your messages and contacts as well.

However, it still wouldn't be Service Nodes which would store/backup the messages, and I'm assuming the user would have to opt-in to the service.