This program combines multiple backups created by SMS Backup & Restore Android app. This has been tested against Android 4.3 and older version.

Usage can be found by using python clean.py --help, which produces this output at the time of writing:

$ python clean.py --help
usage: clean.py [-h] [-i infile [infile ...]] [-o outfile]

Combine XML files created with the program SMS Backup and restore.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i infile [infile ...], --input infile [infile ...]
                        the input files to combine
  -o outfile, --output outfile
                        the output file to write

Background story here.

Big thanks to radj for the original project .

Need to have Python 2.x installed.

python clean.py -i ~/SMSBackupRestore/big_backup.xml -o output_file.xml

python clean.py -i /path/to/directory -o output_file.xml

python clean.py -i backup1.xml backup2.xml backup3.xml -o ~/Backups/output_file.xml

python clean.py -i backup1.xml ~/SMSBackupRestore/sms-*.xml -o ~/Backups/output_file.xml

Emoji needs the lxml package. Use pip install lxml to install it first, then use as normal.

• Python 2 only. (For now?)
• No emoji support Now supports emoji! See above.
• No MMS duplicate filtering. It just maintains the MMS entries as is.