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Everyday I see people loosing their coins (Bitcoins and altcoins) because they forgot to make backup, sometimes people loose different kind of coins.

So I am wondering, why doesn't someone makes a simple app for autobackup (1 click backup). I don't think it's hard to code.

App just need to autodetect clients or there should a option to chose file manually and it should create encrypted backups (encrypted zip) of all coins on secure cloud storage or pendrive or a different partition of HDD.

I agree, it should not be difficult for programmers on this forum.
Even I can write a batch file that does exactly that.
It compresses and encrypt the wallet, then ftp to a private server on web.

It would be very easy to create a program that does this, but I can just imagine the post...

"Download this .EXE and run it to back up all of your wallet.dat files."

I suspect anyone that would do that has already lost their coins.

Safer is to use a batch file.  Add coins by copying the section and giving the coin a name.

Change the BACKUPDRIVE to a drive letter for a CD or thumbdrive.

Tron Black
CEO, CoinCPA.com

Copy this text to Backup.cmd
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REM Backup to E

SET BACKUPDRIVE=E:

SET COIN=42
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%

SET COIN=Alphacoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%


SET COIN=Alphacoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%

SET COIN=Anoncoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%


SET COIN=Bitcoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%


SET COIN=Blackcoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%

SET COIN=Namecoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%


SET COIN=Yacoin
%BACKUPDRIVE%
CD \
MKDIR %COIN%
copy %APPDATA%\%COIN%\wallet.dat E:\%COIN%

Yes batch file is a good option for linux and Windows, not sure if you can make one for mac too.


If it's open source, I don't think there should be a problem, as people download miner .exe's and different altcoin .exe's too.