Set up a backup, and get files back

Set up a backup#

1. Choose a place on another drive than your files: an external drive is best. A cloud folder already on this PC, such as OneDrive, works too.
2. Open the Cellarer's page: Open on its card in Castellan. Its tour asks where to back up to and what. Or open Settings.
3. Set Back up to to a folder in that place: E:\Backups, say. A folder that isn't there yet is made.
4. Under What to back up, tick the folders to keep. Add others under Other folders to back up.
5. Press Save, then Back up now.

The first backup copies everything, and may take a while. After that, only what changed.

Get a file back#

The backup is plain copies: you need nothing but File Explorer.

1. Press Open the backup on the Cellarer's page, or open the place yourself, then Cellarer backup, then this PC's name.
2. Find the file, in the same folders as on your PC.
3. Copy it back where you want it.

Get an earlier version back#

1. Open the backup, then Earlier versions.
2. Each folder is named by when the files in it were replaced. Open the one from before the change you want to undo.
3. Copy the file back.

On a new PC#

Plug in the drive, open the backup in File Explorer, and copy the folders back. Then install Castellan, hire the Cellarer, and set Back up to again: the new PC's backup goes under its own name.