NOOB needs backup solution: Crashplan, GameSave, etc.?

[tgm1024]

Is there a way for me to have all the game files (by this I mean the files that represent my kids' current status in a game, their existing map configurations, .....all user modifiable content) copied to a single folder so that Crashplan has a smaller backup to make?

My current installation is in F:\GAMES\Steam

1. Do I need to use the 3rd party GameSave Manager (http://www.gamesave-manager.com/) to do this? (GSM would theoretically backup everything they play to a single folder which is then backed up by Crashplan to cloudsville).

2. Does Steam have a small number of folders that can be accessed by Crashplan instead?

3. What is the common practice for this?

When googling around I see many links to places talking about "backing up game files", but they're not directly done within the game, and they seem to be centric to the idea of MOVING an installation.

*Dazed and confused*

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Steam does have a backup feature but that doesn't back up 3rd party addons, save game files or screen shots. It just backups the files needed to play the game. I don't think it backs up user modified files of games either. I may be wrong. The backup feature will back up your games to an exe with 2 or 3 other files. Each game will have to be backed up on its on. So if you have alot of games it will take awile. Also before you back up your games make sure you have the space to back them up. So if you have 300 gigabytes in games then you will need that in free space to back them up.
You can also just uninstall the games to free up space they will remain on your steam account so you can download them later to play.

[tgm1024]

To be clear though, it's the player data I'm interested in.

In Minecraft, it would be whatever his worlds look like, along with his settings, and addons (I have all these siphoned elsewhere already).
In UnrealTournament, it would be all the maps and things done mid-development.

Nothing that is related to the game's exe, or runtime environment and libraries, just the stuff the users create and can't be replicated if the HD turns to dust.

I'm not sure I asked this correctly.

[Taichi]

tgm1024 eredeti hozzászólása:

Is there a way for me to have all the game files (by this I mean the files that represent my kids' current status in a game, their existing map configurations, .....all user modifiable content) copied to a single folder so that Crashplan has a smaller backup to make?

My current installation is in F:\GAMES\Steam

1. Do I need to use the 3rd party GameSave Manager (http://www.gamesave-manager.com/) to do this? (GSM would theoretically backup everything they play to a single folder which is then backed up by Crashplan to cloudsville).

2. Does Steam have a small number of folders that can be accessed by Crashplan instead?

3. What is the common practice for this?

When googling around I see many links to places talking about "backing up game files", but they're not directly done within the game, and they seem to be centric to the idea of MOVING an installation.

*Dazed and confused*

[tgm1024]

^^^^Was there a reply that vanished? :)

[ReBoot]

I can share my crash plan with you. I have a NAS and use Windows backup. That keeps copies of my shell:personal where many ges store their data. The rest I add to a "Game saves" library for Windows backup to save too.
That and I use Steamcloud.