Welcome to Pandora QShield CLI – a user-friendly backup and restore solution designed to keep your qBittorrent settings secure! With Pandora QShield, you can safely back up and restore your application settings, ensuring your preferences and configurations are preserved during Windows reinstallation, migration, or qBittorrent reinstallation.
- Portability: No installation required.
- Secure Backup & Restore: Easily save and restore qBittorrent settings to a location of your choice.
- Performance Optimization: Multi-instance defense mechanism and memory efficiency algorithm.
- Precise Event Logs: Includes a logging system to record all actions for easy debugging.
- Intel or AMD processors (post-2014)
- 64-bit Windows 10 Update 2020++ or Windows 11
- RAM: 6 GB or better
- qBittorrent version 4.0 or newer
- Free disk space: 5 GB or more
NOTE: NOT TESTED ON ARM64 PROCESSORS.
In some devices, qBittorrent may lose internet connectivity after a restore. To resolve this, manually set the connection interface in qBittorrent to "Any Interface":
We plan to address this bug in a future update.
- Download from python.org/downloads/windows
- During installation, check "Add python.exe to PATH"
QShield is portable. No installation needed. Follow these steps:
- Download
qShield_v1.2(source).zip. - Extract the downloaded
.zipfile. - Open the folder named
qShield_v1.2. - Open
Windows Powershell/Windows Terminal/CMDasadmin cdinto the directory you extracted the folder to. Example:cd D:\Backups\qShield_v1.2- Type in the following
pip install -r requirements.txtand pressEnter - Type in the following
python main.pyand pressEnter - Enjoy.
QShield is portable. No installation needed. Follow these steps:
- Download
qShield_v1.2.zip. - Extract the downloaded
.zipfile. - Open the folder named
qShield_v1.2. - Double-click
qShield_v1.2.exeand grant admin privileges.
Visit GitHub repository for the GUI version to learn more: ryancantrell321/Pandora_QShield
- Path strings must be entered without quotation marks.
- Paths can include underscores but must not contain spaces or hyphens.
- Ensure your disk directories remain in the same location as when the data was backed up.
- Press
1for backup.
The software retrieves data from the following directories:%localappdata%\qBittorrent%appdata%\qBittorrent
- Specify a location to save the backup.
The location must exist and cannot include spaces or hyphens (underscores are allowed). - The backup process will proceed.
- Press
2to restore.
The tool will automatically extract data from the.zipfile it previously created and restore it to the original directories. - Specify the file path and name of the
.zipfile. - Important: Ensure qBittorrent is completely closed before restoring data.
Use this data deletion tool only if you experience qBittorrent interface corruption.
Pandora QShield is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.0.
- Password-protected secure backups.
- Cloud storage support.
| File Name | Virus Scan Link |
|---|---|
| qShield_v1.2(source).zip | Scan Result |
| qShield_v1.2.zip | Scan Result |
| qShield_v1.2.exe | Scan Result |
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