Jakarta, Gizmologi – Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was reportedly arrested by police in France. This incident means you have to prepare to back up your Telegram data, because there is a potential that the Telegram application will be closed.
Durov reportedly arrested due to lack of moderators on Telegram app. For this reason, the police believe that this situation allows criminal activity to continue unhindered on the messaging application.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Paris was clarifying the situation around Durov and called on Western non-governmental organizations to demand his release. Even so, Telegram users must be prepared to back up Telegram data, especially those who like to store a lot of data in the messaging application.
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How to Back Up Telegram Data Only Via Telegram Desktop
In the official Telegram blog, it was found that the way to back up Telegram data can be done if you have the Telegram Desktop application on your laptop or computer. You can't back up Telegram data if you're using an Android smartphone or iPhone or on a Mac.
Gizmo friends can back up Telegram data from chats, photos, files or other media. Later, the results after you back up Telegram data can be accessed offline in JSON format or HTML format.
If you have downloaded the latest version of the Telegram Desktop application, you can immediately click on settings and then select export Telegram data. You can export individual chats by opening the menu “…” in any chat and select export chat history.
Influencers on X have also reminded some people to immediately back up their Telegram data. As done by Ibrahim Arief with the account @ibamarief.
Other Options for Backing Up Telegram Data
More than WhatsApp, Telegram is popular among its users because everything is saved in a personal cloud with unlimited size. Without using up Google Drive or iCloud capacity, Telegram users can upload up to 2GB per file for free users.
Meanwhile, if you want to upload larger files, you need to subscribe to Telegram Premium at a cost of around IDR 300 thousand per year, to increase the capacity to 4GB per file. As for the Durov problem, it is possible that we can take advantage of applications that we previously avoided, namely WhatsApp, Google Drive and iCloud. Moreover, WhatsApp now has a chat feature for yourself, which is very useful and is the same as saved messages on Telegram.
The Telegram application is the work of Durov and his brother in 2013. The Russian-born man left his native country in 2014 and refused to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on his VKontakte social media platform, which he later sold.
After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Telegram has become a major source of unfiltered, sometimes graphic and misleading content. Russia is known to have started blocking Telegram in 2018 after the app refused to comply with a court order to give state security agencies access to its users' encrypted messages.
