Phone-to-phone backup and restore silently loses most files
A user who backed up their device and switched phones found that most of their files were missing after restore, despite the backup process reporting success. This silent data-loss failure on a core reliability promise (backup/restore) affects anyone migrating devices and undermines trust in cloud storage integrity.
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