Let's attempt Frank Slootweg's freeware solution for backing up Android to Windows

Paul wrote:
Alek wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote on 11/17/2018 9:48 AM:
You apparently missed - or don't remember - my recent (October 22)
response to you about what I use to backup my Android devices, so here's
the news URL of my post. And yes, it ticks all your boxes. Have fun.

news

Not sure how to use this link.

Another way to do it:

Enter this URL in Seamonkey browser (which is a suite and
includes a news reader).

news://news.aioe.org:119/pql56t.8k8....individual.net

That syntax would work in Thunderbird... if we could figure
out a way to enter a URL :-) I haven't figured out where that
is hiding on TBird.

Maybe you could call TBird from the command line and do it
or something.

This *used* to work 'in' Thunderbird as well, but - as I mentioned in
another response -, currently Thunderbird seems (is?) broken and
probably has been broken for years. (The last time I checked (and
documented) this was in June 2008.)

I say 'in' (Thunderbird), because you couldn't *enter* such a URL in
TB, because it doesn't have a box to enter it in.

The 'trick' was to enter the URL into your (web)*browser*, i.e. mostly
IE and then IE would know that it should pass the URL to TB, which would
then execute it and - in this case - show the article.

The News server part of the URL was not needed, because it would
default to whichever server was configured in TB, i.e. just

news
exactly like in my first post about this.

But - as I said -, currently 'news:' URLs don't work anymore in TB, at
least not for me, also not after several hours Googling numerous
dead-ends.

The only - totally useless - part which I now have 'working' (on
Windows 8.1) is that if I enter a 'news:' URL - *any* 'news:' URL, also
a wrong one - in Chrome (the browser), Chrome will start Thunderbird (if
it wasn't already running). But it does not even go to the News part of
TB, let alone that it executes any specific part of the URL, i.e. for
the above example, it does *not* open/show the desired article.

Did I already mention "totall useless"!? I probably did. Sigh!