Do I need a separate piece of software to run this tool from cmd in windows?
With the binaries having gone missing on Dropbox in the decade (!) since this thread was last active, you'd have to build this C# program from the sources on GitHub, or find someone to do it for you.
Personally, I wouldn't bother, having looked into it. This program worries me on several fronts:
- MIA author
- Amateurish code (mixed GUI and logic, misapplication of obsolete crypto class, etc.)
- Compiled DLLs distributed with project without provenance given
- No license given
Short of a detailed code review, I wouldn't dare run a binary built from this code even if it were available.
For roughly the same cost as downloading a copy of
Visual Studio Community needed to build this — if indeed it even
will build out of the box a decade later — you could install WSL and
my backup solution, which doesn't have any of the above-listed weaknesses. It hasn't got a GUI for doing the backup, but the Fossil piece gives you a GUI for managing the backup snapshots taken afterward.
(Personally, I consider that a strength. This separates core logic from the peripheral GUI elements, as is proper.)
I've got a
separate thread dedicated to that tool here.
