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Cellarer: release notes

Each version, newest first.

0.1.0

The Cellarer joins the household: your photos, videos and documents backed up, and checked that they restore.

What's new

  • Backs up Documents, Pictures, Videos and Desktop (and Music, or any other folder you choose) to an external drive, another drive, a network folder or a cloud folder already on your PC. No account needed.
  • Copies only what's new or changed, every hour or when you press Back up now, as plain copies you can open with File Explorer.
  • Never deletes anything in the backup: a file you delete stays in it, and a changed file's older copy is kept under Earlier versions.
  • Every week it restores a few files from the backup and checks they match what was backed up.
  • Says plainly what isn't covered yet: a drive that's unplugged (it backs up when it's back), a full drive, a file in use, a folder you haven't chosen, a backup on the same drive as your files.
  • Leaves OneDrive's online-only files in the cloud, so a backup never downloads them.

Before you update

  • Nothing: choose where to back up to when you hire it, and it starts.

Installing

  • Castellan installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).