I fail to see the point of the steam backup option

i back up games that i'm finished with. ive got 65 games in my Steam library, but only 30 installed, the rest are backed up to an external drive, so if i get the urge for a quick bit of HL2 or Crysis, it's only a quick reinstall away, as opposed to having to DL all over again.
 
Interesting, so backing up the games is a good way to not have to download them AND keep them on another drive. Could probably use that to better utilise my SSD for games I am playing and my other HDDs for storing the games that are not in use.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Interesting, so backing up the games is a good way to not have to download them AND keep them on another drive. Could probably use that to better utilise my SSD for games I am playing and my other HDDs for storing the games that are not in use.
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yes, but you don't have to use steam's inbuilt backup routine.

The best way is simply to copy the game out of the steamapps folder (or the entire steamapps folder), to another drive.

I hadn't thought of using winrar to compress them as well - if space gets short, I'll start doing that.
 
MeMeMeMe said:
I hadn't thought of using winrar to compress them as well - if space gets short, I'll start doing that.
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Aye it's well worth it for a lot of games, and it would probably be much quicker for you since you have a quad core. I only have a 250GB raid1 storage drive atm so it definately helps for me anyway.

I have found you get the best results by selecting 'create solid archive' for most games.
 
Won't somebody think of the save games????
Re-downloading is all well and good if the game is Cloud aware, if it isn't then backing up / cloning the steam directory is a godsend.
 
BloodyL said:
Won't somebody think of the save games????
Re-downloading is all well and good if the game is Cloud aware, if it isn't then backing up / cloning the steam directory is a godsend.
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kylew said:
I don't think that's currently something you can do with current software.

However I can't see it being particularly hard.

You'd just need to create a database of games, and where what games store their save files.

Maybe it could be integrated into steam, we could get a petition going or something? I know I'd find it quite useful.
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I have only 8mb speed but it seems damn fast to me, never have to wait long for anything. Perhaps living very close to the exchange might help a tad.
 
i just copy the folders to the external drive.

I need a back up though since I like to have my games handy and only have 40 gig per month
 
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