About to upgrade the HDD in my PS3, but before I do...

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Picked myself up a bargain-tastic 250GB HDD last night from work for £27 (Maxtor Basics portable one, which I promptly cracked open!) and so what better way to spend a nice, sunday day off work then by fiddling with my atrociously expensive games console? :D

That aside, I just want to go through the back-up/restore process before I actually go ahead. I've done a back-up onto a portable HDD before, but it was just a full back-up so it took a while. I believe it'll be quicker this time if I delete the installed game data first, and then just install that as and when I need it?

Also, do downloaded games/demos (from PSN) get backed-up or do I need to download those again? Do I need to do anything in order to ensure I can download them again the next time? I seem to remember something about de-authorising the system first?

Trophies are synced with the server so I have no concerns about those, and I'm aware I need to sync them before I do the HDD swap. What about save games? Better to do copy those to my portable HDD manually?

Can't think of anything else on there that's important, so hopefully I haven't missed anything.

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: Actually, just thought of something. I have two profiles on the console, one is my main one and the other is the one I use for accessing the US PSN Store. Will both of these be backed-up?
 
Literally everything is backed up, savegames, profiles, PSN content, settings, the works.

Once you've backed up, a restore would return a PS3 to the exact same state it was at the time of the backup.
 
That is correct, all data is backed up, multiple profiles, the lot. The only thing that isn't is trophies.

For trophies you need to login and then highlight tophies, press triangle (I think) and sync them with the server.


First time I used backup was from 60gb to a 160gb and it didn't take long at all but last time I went from the 160gb to 320gb and it was seriously slow. For some reason a couple of things ended up corrupt (only the installed game data like updates etc). It may have just been the external drive I was using being dodgey.
 
Good good, just backing-up now then I'll make the swap. Hopefully I don't destroy the screw, heard far too many a horror story about those.
 
Success! Fairly straightforward, although did have to download the latest software and put it onto a USB flash drive, forgot about it needing that. Also took about 5 minutes to re-sync my trophies.

Seems to be working fine, just installing GTA Episodes (again) and I should be back in business.
 
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