Crypto Wallet BackupWHAT: Fast & easy backup for all your crypto currency wallet.dat files.
v1.1HOME PAGE: http://cynic.me/2014/03/29/crypto-wallet-backup-adds-testnet-and-conf-files/v1.0HOME PAGE: http://cynic.me/2013/12/19/crypto-wallet-backup-a-simple-easy-open-source-wallet-dat-backup-program/DOWNLOADS:v1.1* Adds in testnet
* Adds in CONF files
* Tiny cosmetic change
Download programDownload source codev.1.0Download programDownload source codeUSING CRYPTO WALLET BACKUP:1) Unzip and copy the program to a USB memory stick or some form of external storage, e.g. portable hard drive, mobile phone, digital camera, SD card, etc.
2) Run the program.
3) Click the "Find My Wallets!" button to automatically find all your wallets.
4) Drag and drop any other files that you want to back up from Window Explorer to anywhere on the program. They will be added to the backup list. e.g. A Keepass database, etc.
5) Click the "Back Up Files" button.
6) Done! Run it again from another portable storage device so that you have more than 1 backup.
The program minimizes to the taskbar notification area (system tray) so as to not clutter up the taskbar. Just double-click the icon then click the backup button any time you want to create a new backup.
Wallets are backed up in date & time stamped folder names with each wallet (or file) renamed with the full path (as you can see above). This keeps it extremely simple and you can see in the file name where each wallet would be restored to. It also eliminates the need for subfolders so you can see all your wallet files backed up in 1 place without browsing through different folders.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:No other special requirements.
NOTES:There is more information in the "readme.txt" file that comes along with the program. The source code is available there as well. So far the source code has been checked out by 1 person here:
http://doges.org/index.php/topic,2807.msg14905.html#msg14905.
If anyone else would like to check the source, please do. There are a lot of douches out there, I'm just not one of them.
So if someone else could check the source for the sake of those people that don't program and can't read code, it would be appreciated.
This isn't a general backup program though, and it's not designed to backup large amounts of data. It's meant for quickly backing up wallets and perhaps a couple other critical files.
WHY?I've been meaning to write a very simple and easy to use program to backup my wallet.dat files, and finally got around to it. (Seeing the price of Bitcoin and other crypto dropping was pretty depressing, so I needed to do some coding just to relax.) I backup my wallets to quite a few devices, and it's really a pain in the butt. This just makes it a lot easier.
I wanted something that I could run from a USB stick or other portable storage so that I could have multiple backups without a lot of the fuss and pain of using some crazy massive backup "solution".
Hopefully that will save someone some pain down the road.
UPDATE 2014-03-29: v1.1 adds in testnet wallet.dat and CONF file backups.