Konserve

A simple GUI backup utility for Windows, designed to help you back up important folders or files and restore them later—even on a different machine or user account.

✔ Portable backups with timestamped TARs
✔ Embedded build-time fingerprint
✔ Template support
✔ Partial restore with visual tree selection & progress
✔ Smart path correction across Windows users

Roadmap: See what's planned for v0.2.0 →

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Features

• Select multiple folders and files to include in a backup
• Create timestamped .tar archives with embedded path data
• Embedded fingerprint (via build script) in every backup for traceability
• Restore entire backups or selectively restore individual items
• Preview and toggle restore items using a collapsible folder tree
• Progress bars & spinners show pack/unpack progress in real time
• Save/Load/Edit templates (.json) to re-use backup selections
• Auto-adjust file paths when restoring to a new user account
• Friendly GUI built with egui

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UI Preview

Backup	Template	Restore

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Backup Format

Each backup:

• Is saved as a compressed .tar file:

  backup_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.tar
  

• Includes a fingerprint.txt file with:
  • A unique fingerprint ID (configured via .env or embedded at build time)
  • The original source paths for every backed-up file/folder

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Template System

Save your folder/file selection as a .json template to:

• Quickly re-select common paths for future backups
• Manually edit or review the list in-app
• Load templates even when some paths are missing (skips safely)

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Path Correction

Restoring to a different user account? No problem.
The tool auto-adjusts Windows-style paths like:

C:\Users\Alice\Documents → C:\Users\Bob\Documents

This allows seamless migration between machines or profiles.

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Building

Prerequisites

• Rust (2021+ toolchain): Install Rust
• A Windows machine (or cross-compile target)
• (Optional) .env file with a custom fingerprint:

  FINGERPRINT=MyMachine123

Build

cargo build --release

Your executable will be:

target/release/Konserve.exe

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Credits

Maintained and developed by @konnatoad

Special thanks to @seshues for feedback, ideas and input.

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Documentation

See the full documentation in the GitHub Wiki.