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Take your Codex projects, conversations, skills, and settings with you safely.
Codex Lifeboat is a portable Windows application for backing up, verifying, restoring, and moving a local Codex workspace between computers.
Current status: Codex Lifeboat 3.4.2 is a public testing release. Keep an independent copy of irreplaceable data while testing.
Download:
Codex-Lifeboat-Windows-x64-Portable.zip
Extract the ZIP completely and start Codex-Lifeboat.exe.
Do not download GitHub's automatically generated Source code archives unless you want to develop the application.
- Creates portable backups of local Codex data
- Includes active, archived, pinned, and projectless conversations
- Includes complete project folders, including Git data and uncommitted files
- Includes locally available attachments, skills, and portable settings
- Lets you include or exclude individual projects
- Shows project location, size, file count, and largest folders
- Verifies files using SHA-256 hashes
- Translates Windows usernames and supported project locations
- Detects conflicts before restoring
- Preserves destination authentication and machine identity
- Creates a safety copy before restoration
- Rolls back automatically when a restoration fails
- Manages local recovery points
- Provides read-only diagnostics and anonymized support reports
- Supports English and Dutch
- Runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11 x64
- Getting Started
- Backup Guide
- Restore Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Nederlands
- Report a problem
- View the source code
Codex Lifeboat backups are not encrypted. A backup can contain source code, .env files, API keys, and other confidential project data.
Keep your USB drive and backup folders physically secure.
Codex Lifeboat is an independent community project and is not an official OpenAI product.