Backup SMS database on Android

While there are ready made apps that backup and restore your SMSes, you can easily backup the database if you have a rooted phone without installing any external software.

The SMSes are stored in an SQLite database available under:

/dbdata/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

Here is the procedure:

$ sudo ./adb start-server
$ ./adb pull /dbdata/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db ~/sms_backup.db

Simple!