Gonna backup my ♥♥♥♥ but

[MitchellFJN]

Gonna backup my ♥♥♥♥ with the top left steam "backup and restore" but steam says something about DVD-R and CD-R, and both have massively different compression rates. I just want to back them up on my USB and i have no idea what to choose that's the safest/least amount chance of data corruption and errors. Need to wipe my pc and don't want to wait to redownload everything from cloud after.

Question 1. Does this backup all the game's player data
Question 2. What does the compression rate matter
Question 3. Which option should i choose to backup on my USB (who the hell got a dvd or cd I dont have one)
Question 4. why is there a column for you to choose the compression size what does that do

Thanks

also I'm legit asking this aint a joke

[Muppet among Puppets]

Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

So I'd say just copy and paste the folders if you really want to do this, but it's rather moot.

It is less writes than re-installing. And faster.
Basically one copy paste per drive.

[crunchyfrog]

Escrito originalmente por Muppet among Puppets:

Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

So I'd say just copy and paste the folders if you really want to do this, but it's rather moot.

It is less writes than re-installing. And faster.
Basically one copy paste per drive.

Yeah it's far simpler across the board frankly.

[Wintering Goose]

Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

Escrito originalmente por robo:

A large hard drive is more suitable. speficially an external hard drive like this https://www.google.com/search?q=seagate+expansion&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBAU975AU975&oq=seagate+ex&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l9.4624j0j3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Makes it easier to back up large files. I don't know anyone who still use CD/DVD's on computers these days.

I do because they are great still for offline storage.

Hard drives fail, DVDs don't if you know how to store them correctly.

There's a reason I have CDs I bought right from when they were first released in the 1980s and only two don't work out of thousands. Temperature, sunlight and all that are the way to deal with such media.

I'd be careful about that. Factory-pressed discs are physically imprinted with their data, but writeable CDs and DVDs use a dye onto which the data is burned, which can break down over time. While your 40-year-old CDs will probably be fine for decades to come, ones that you've created yourself might not.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Depends on what type of disks plan to be using, type of material used, quality of the material & end product, and how it's stored, can somewhat determine how long a disk could be expected to last.

Good flash storage are more ideal, as how cheap they became in the last 20 years, and easier to store, and manage, as well backup content. But have to ensure it's store properly, not crappy chinese knock off.

[crunchyfrog]

Escrito originalmente por x_loto:

Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

I do because they are great still for offline storage.

Hard drives fail, DVDs don't if you know how to store them correctly.

There's a reason I have CDs I bought right from when they were first released in the 1980s and only two don't work out of thousands. Temperature, sunlight and all that are the way to deal with such media.

I'd be careful about that. Factory-pressed discs are physically imprinted with their data, but writeable CDs and DVDs use a dye onto which the data is burned, which can break down over time. While your 40-year-old CDs will probably be fine for decades to come, ones that you've created yourself might not.

Actually I know this, as I qualified as an audio engineer. Part and parcel of the training was understanding manufacturing and recording methods.

Thsi was when I started putting magnetic media in selaed, temperature controlled containers, which has shown to work perfectly. It's why I have cassettes and floppies from the 1970s that still work fine.

So yeah I get your point, but the devil's in the details. I have those discs and I use them all the time. While you're right they CAN break down, I have yet to see any evidence of this and again, I use them all the time.

If you keep them well as I stated and don't use ♥♥♥♥ markers or labels that will degrade things, then as I've found out, so far ♥♥♥♥ all problems occur.

It might change in the future, and I do not rely on them lasting the same. I can easily just create new backups whenever I need.

I realise this might sound snobby, but it wasn't intended to.

I'm just trying to explain that I'm one of those people that not only get to learn about this, but sat down and thought "I'm going to empirically test it".

[Ocelote.12]

If you want to backup to USB drive, use manual copying. Copy

1) all the needed files from Steam\steamapps\common\ or SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\

2) and all corresponding needed .acf files from Steam\steamapps\ or SteamLibrary\steamapps\.

If you don't know what .acf you need you can see their contents in Notepad or other text editor, or you can find the number (called AppID) from online sources like https://steamdb.info/apps/ . Just enter the game name on that website and it'll find your AppID.

To restore, quit Steam, copy them back to the folders shown in "1)" and launch Steam again. You will see these games as installed, and probably Steam will automatically download newer versions/patches for these games.

[crunchyfrog]

Escrito originalmente por Manul:

If you want to backup to USB drive, use manual copying. Copy

1) all the needed files from Steam\steamapps\common\ or SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\

2) and all corresponding needed .acf files from Steam\steamapps\ or SteamLibrary\steamapps\.

If you don't know what .acf you need you can see their contents in Notepad or other text editor, or you can find the number (called AppID) from online sources like https://steamdb.info/apps/ . Just enter the game name on that website and it'll find your AppID.

To restore, quit Steam, copy them back to the folders shown in "1)" and launch Steam again. You will see these games as installed, and probably Steam will automatically download newer versions/patches for these games.

No this is NOT the easiest way as it's easy to miss those acf files.

YOu are still far better off using the in built function in Steam.

Steam settings > Downloads. From the window that comes up click on the top button and either add the folder as destination or move it as you wish. Done.