I think SMS Backup + is history- anything left out there that backs up texts to gmail?

[Chicagoguy2]

I switched phones and can't get SMS Backup Plus working on the new one. I think it's finally time to let it go....
Is there currently anything out there that backs up texts to gmail/email? Maybe they've built it into the OS in some way by now? I'm typically a few years behind in the OS department (went from Note 4 to Galaxy S8+ so now I'm only about 4 years behind...)

[zapjb]

Maybe SMS Backup & Restore or SMS Backup, Print & Restore,

[fetcher]

I've been happy with "SMS Backup & Restore" by SyncTech when switching phones. It dumps call logs & messages to XML files, which can be very large - hundreds of megabytes if you have a lot of photos, video clips etc. on file in MMS threads. So, too big for email, but there's an option to save them to Google Drive, and I think Dropbox and a couple of similar services. I haven't tried any of the cloud offerings, instead just saving the .xml files locally, then pulling them off to a computer over USB.

Note that restoring messages with this software will overwrite any already present on the target phone. I don't think it has a way to merge in a backup, though maybe there's an option somewhere that I missed.

[Chicagoguy2]

Actually the Samsung smart transfer app or whatever it was called did a perfect job of moving my considerable text and call history over from my Note 5 to my S8 plus. What I'm missing now is the functionality of being able to read (and search) my texts in e-mail. With SMS Backup+ I'd see incoming texts in my e-mail within a minute or two. This is ===really== great once you get used to it. I have SMS Backup and Restore and it looks like all it does is backup the whole mess for eventual restoration. I've never used Google Drive and am not sure what good it would do me to have the backup stored there.