What is the purpose of backing up a steam game file?

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Fred Fuchs Jan 21, 2015 @ 6:28pm

If one of my games saved data gets corrupted and I previsouly backed it up will it go back to normal?

Thank you!

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DirtyFishy Jan 21, 2015 @ 6:28pm

Yeah, pretty much.

Fred Fuchs Jan 21, 2015 @ 6:30pm

Thanks for the speedy reply, now for part two I suppose, lol
what else does it do? And how do I recover it if my save file does get corrupted?
Thanks

DirtyFishy Jan 21, 2015 @ 6:31pm

Well, usually when you back files up, you save them to an external HDD or a USB memory stick, that way you can just plug it back in in the event of corruption and continue from your last backup.

cyanic Jan 21, 2015 @ 6:42pm

Originally posted by Fred Fuchs:
If one of my games saved data gets corrupted and I previsouly backed it up will it go back to normal?

Not if it's a game save. Game saves are typically excluded from Steam backups. The only time save files are backed up is if the game supports Steam Cloud, and even then you usually can't retrieve an older version of the file in case the new one is corrupted.

Fred Fuchs Jan 21, 2015 @ 8:02pm

Originally posted by cyanic:
Originally posted by Fred Fuchs:
If one of my games saved data gets corrupted and I previsouly backed it up will it go back to normal?

Not if it's a game save. Game saves are typically excluded from Steam backups. The only time save files are backed up is if the game supports Steam Cloud, and even then you usually can't retrieve an older version of the file in case the new one is corrupted.

Thats terrible...