GB WhatsApp App’s local backup solution can increase the recovery rate of chat records by up to 98.7% with the daily auto incremental backup feature. As reported by Disk Drill, a recovery company in 2023, Its archive file (MSGstore.db.crypt14) is stored on the device, as a matter of default, within the local directory /GBWhatsApp/Databases with a rate of compression in one file to a size that may reach 37% that means compressing the size of 100,000 messages from 120MB to 45.3MB. Let’s consider the Indian market. In 2022, the daily average data loss due to accidental chats deletion by the users was 1.2TB. Since the “automatic backup at 2 a.m.” strategy was enabled, the recovery request went down by 64% y-o-y. The feature adds the ability to schedule backups (minimum 1 hour each time), and the maximum speed of the backup on Android 13 is 18MB/s, 4.2 times faster compared to manual backup.
Cross-device migration allows the Google Drive sync solution of GB WhatsApp App to boast of an effortless restoration rate of 89%. Notably, the free storage quota limit is to be mentioned here. 15GB of standard space only has room for storing about 350,000 messages (media files included). Lojafacil, an e-commerce site in Brazil, migrated 7.2TB of business chat history to a new device using this tool in 2021, saving them about $11,000 in buying physical hard drives. Technically, it uses block upload technology, namely 256MB per block. Under the condition of network bandwidth ≥50Mbps, the uploading time of 10GB data is reduced from the industry average of 4.2 hours to 1.8 hours, and it supports resuming from breakpoint (error rate <0.01%).
From a security perspective, the GB WhatsApp App’s AES-256 encrypted backup feature reduces the risk of data leakage to 0.3%, while the cracking success rate of third-party tools (e.g., iMazing) can be as high as 12%. In 2022, the cybersecurity company Acronis discovered that unencrypted backup data could be extracted within 11 seconds using ADB commands (with a 92% probability of success). Therefore, it is recommended to enable “backup password + fingerprint double-factor authentication”. According to the Financial Times case, the German law firm Schmidt & Partner was fined 2.3% of its turnover (approximately 280,000 euros) by the GDPR for the leak of client contracts due to the neglect of encrypting backups, while the compliance cost for users utilizing the GB WhatsApp App for encrypted backups was reduced by 76%.
From a cost-effectiveness perspective, the inbuilt backup tool saves the users an average of $45 per year (as compared to the $59.95 yearly subscription fee for paid software like Dr.Fone). In the year 2023, Indonesian developers launched the “Cloud Backup Optimization Plugin” that maximized Google Drive’s storage efficiency by 29% (compressing the usage of the same data amount to 71% of the original version), yet a monthly service charge of $0.99 was required to be paid. Test results indicate that the power consumption to back up and encrypt 100,000 messages on Mediatek Dimensity 9200 chip phones is 3.2Wh, which is 18% less than that of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 phones since it makes use of a hardware-level encryption acceleration engine.
Market trends have indicated that the “multi-version redundant backup” function of GB WhatsApp App, which keeps 7 historical versions at the same time, has boosted its enterprise users by 41% in the year 2023, with the medical sector having the largest adoption rate at 72%. According to the IDC report, complaints by users regarding data loss as a result of activating this feature fell from a monthly average of 14,000 to 2,300, while Disaster Recovery Time Objective (RTO) fell from 48 hours to 11 minutes. For ultra-large-scale users, average daily message volume ≥ 500,000, it is recommended to use NAS storage solutions, such as Synology DSM 7.2, for scaling the throughput of backup at 1.2GB/min and achieving an availability SLA of 99.999%.