I fail to see the point of the steam backup option

sorry but 15gig takes less than 10 mins here... only thing this falls short on is drm games with install limits

What kinda connection are you on? Very few people have ~200MBit/s connections at home, and even those that do rarely manage those kinda speeds over the internet. Theres very few people with residential connections who can download that much in an hour. For most people thats between 2 and 10 hours of downloading.

Besides you'd be lucky to get anything close to that on steam, I managed 400MBit/s once during a quiet period but generally it caps out at around 70MBit/s if your lucky and about 5Mbit/s during peak times.
 
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I had about 10 games installed.
I reinstalled Steam, with only 1 game.
Ping dropped from 25 to 10.

Probably because some of the other games where being auto-updated in the background whiilst you were playing before you reinstalled. I'm not sure if the Steam client is clever enough to suspend auto-updating if you launch a game. I'm sure it does but I've never checked it myself.
 
Well if I have X Terabytes of data on Steam and my internet only downloads at 55kbs, you do the math :)

Not everyone has super fast internet. It would simply take too long to redownload everything if I needed to reinstall or change my HD.
 
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Probably because some of the other games where being auto-updated in the background whiilst you were playing before you reinstalled. I'm not sure if the Steam client is clever enough to suspend auto-updating if you launch a game. I'm sure it does but I've never checked it myself.

It is. Steam automatically pauses all patches, updates or new games downloading in the background whenever you load up a game, even if its singleplayer. You can turn them back on yourself, and doing so then complaining would be stupid :p
 
why is it there if the game can just be re downloaded anyway, unless there is something i'm missing.

what i'd really like is a way to back-up all your steam game saves in one click considering if i want to back up my 13 games i have to hunt around the c drive to find them as they are never in the same place.


I guess you are on 50MB/s broadband, I only get 150KB/s. I assume you can do the maths :)
 
Also like hell steam gives you max speeds all the time, I get about 2-3 MB/s on my 50meg sometimes dropping to 200kb/s or something stupid can get max speeds elsewhere, good for cs where you want to back up config and maps etc.

Oh yeah and it loves making my router crash, virgin and steam piling on the &&&&.
 
i just copy the Steam folder onto ext drive , and then copy it back & install Steam - Games are all their just need a few updates and done! 10mins max imo
 
It was probably quite handy when Steam launched in 2003/4. Although admittedly time and technology has moved on. I am sure that some rural broadband users and other less well connected locations/countries still find it useful.
 
Downloading again may be OK for some, but when you're max speed is about 250KB/s if you're lucky, and on a monthly limit that option doesn't look so great.
 
Just remember all, that most people in this forum are tech savvy and know that you can just copy the steam folder over. I've done it a number of times when replacing HDD etc.

But not everyone is as clever as us:D

Some people still want to be hand held through everything and seeing a simple. Back Up Local link is just what they need. They don't want the hassle of opening windows explorer etc.

Taff
 
Yer steam limits you like hell. So backing up is useful ;)

Just asked my swedish mate with 100Mb/s dl to download something from steam he said its going from 600KBs - 1MBs

I've gotten 700KBs on my 10Mb/s connection
 
I think the OP is referring to the inbuilt backup feature, rather than backing up manually by copying the folder. The backup utility takes ages in comparison to copy and pasting the folder.

The only advantage I can see is that it allows you to split the backup into chunks.
 
why is it there if the game can just be re downloaded anyway, unless there is something i'm missing.

what i'd really like is a way to back-up all your steam game saves in one click considering if i want to back up my 13 games i have to hunt around the c drive to find them as they are never in the same place.
Because if you me for instance and ive just reinstalled windows and i now need to install my 37 steam games thats a lot of data.
Im also with BT so im limited to 100GB per month on the highest package so i could quite easily go over that threshold.
 
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