Extract images's from sms on backup

Hi all!
I have new iPhone, I did a backup of the old iPhone using iTunes storing the backup on my mac
now when I restored my new iPhone with my back up many of my sms did not restore
I do have many backups of my iphone on my mac
is there a way to extract my sms and mms from the backups

I don't think you can get it easily Calc manager stores rule as XML file and if you look at the xml file the code starts from something called as !CDATA (I don't know how close i'm, but it is something with CDATA).
I would recommend to backup all the tables and if you are interested in exporting the code part only, then you'll need a OS based script or even use Oracle XMLTable (I've not tried it)
Regards
Celvin
http://www.orahyplabs.com

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