Game Saves and Backups

Hi guys,

Do you use to anything to make a backup of your games? I started using Cobian to backup my ARK save data.

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Originally Posted by Jaco Smit

Hi guys,

Do you use to anything to make a backup of your games? I started using Cobian to backup my ARK save data.

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I rarely if ever make backups of my save games. I do have backups of BioWare game backups because of import reasons.

The saddest thing is that I finished Baldur's Gate but never kept the save games to import into Baldur's Gate 2.

I lost all my ARK Scorched Earth data last weekend (I have been meaning to post this thread earlier) and was SO relieved to find an "accidental" rar file of the savegame folder from the previous weekend. That "phew" moment after restoring the file and your level 102 Trex smiles his brightest smile at you...

I've been using Gamesave manager. Easy to use without any issues thus far.

I backup games that I think I will revisit or import into a squeal to google Drive

I used to have a Save Games folder on one of drives, but that was quite a long time ago. These days I don't backup saves anymore.

I used a very older version of Game Save Manager before, I think. I will test this one out.

A lot of games use the My Games directory located in your Documents folder. So what I like to do is create a directory junction for this folder in my Dropbox, this way all my save games get backed up to the cloud. :)

To do this create a folder in Dropbox (or whichever cloud service you use) called Saved Games (or whatever you like, provided you adjust the command below accordingly) and then make a link in your Documents folder to point towards it.

Code:

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mklink /J "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\" "D:\Dropbox\Saved Games\"

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Some games also use the new Saved Games directory located in the base of your user directory rather than the one in your documents directory, but you can point them to the same directory all the same.

Code:

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mklink /J "C:\Users\%username%\Saved Games" "D:\Dropbox\Saved Games"

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NB: You have to move your saved games to their new location and remove the existing My Games & Saved Games folders before you can create a symbolic link in their place.

Honestly...no longer bother.

I find that I dislike picking up old saves.

e.g. If I have a choice between re-starting skyrim and continuing previous save from 5 months ago I'll likely do new.

If you have PSplus or XBL memberships your save games are automatically backed up to the cloud, which is great.