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FaithNoMore82

Yesterday i lost my whole gamebackup, mostly because of my own fault.

(Note to self: Don't edit things on a computer, if you're sleepy...)

So, as i'm starting over from scratch, what do you people suggest?

Personally, i used this nifty tool right here: Click

But doing it manually, (own 7z settings) compresses the files even more.

So what are you guys using, if any at all. The built in feature? a different tool?

Bear in mind, i do have a SSD for games, so letting them installed is not an option.

But i also have pretty lame internet, so everytime downloading lots of GB is not an option for me either.

I backup up my favorite games, on an exterernal HDD, but compressed to save space.

Discuss!

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FaithNoMore82

Bump, would be nice to hear some opinions from you

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BiskutMentega

I just backup games more than 3GB with the steam backup stuff. Others, I'll download it again. There's one time I uninstalled Steam without knowing it will remove everything. To my relief, my Binding of Isaac save game was safe.

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Brotbaum

I don't back up Steam games or anything that I can get again (from downloads, CDs, etc.) but I back up the gamesaves with GameSave Manager in my Dropbox. For other things (documents, etc.) I rarely make backups but when I do one I just compress them with 7zip. And put the archive on another hard drive.

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FaithNoMore82

Using that tool too. It's a great tool

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Mortado

Thanks for the info. Did not know about this tool

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Xiangming

Looks really useful, checking it out now. :)

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Gainja

I don't think storage space is much of an issue today, so just copying the steam dir to a different hard disk seems like the easiest option. If you really want to compress, I'd just right-click-drag each folder to the backup location and select compress with winrar.

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FaithNoMore82

That's what i do right now, except with 7z ;-)

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Closed 11 years ago by FaithNoMore82.