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I'm not sure I buy the "important data" one: my Lightroom catalog, to me , constitutes incredibly important data. Losing it and just having the base files would destroy over a decade of work. It also happens to be a SQLlite3 database. And the same is true for a slew of other applications that (quite rightly) use SQLite databases as their file format. You might be thinking of things like financial transactions, or med…
+1 So is contacts list, sms messages, Whatsapp data, browser data etc etc. whese are separate installations of sqlite, hundreds per phone. And they ARE important, at least to me.
My contacts are stored in my sim chip or google(server), also they are shared with many apps (server), whatsapp msgs are backed up to google drive (server), and itself stored on server side whatsapp servers.
Broswer data is sqlite yes, but it is also flushed every couple of months, and is by design ephemeral.