Having it in one place would be useful, since games often dump their saves in a variety of weird places so it could be easily lost when setting up a new system.
I roll my own by using syncthing and then symlinking the directories etc to their actual locations.
You’re assuming that everyone wants to back up their system though. On my gaming PC, I would literally want just this, I couldn’t care less about everything else. For me this would be useful. Would also be nice for my Steam Deck for my GOG games.
I use it for when I’m finished with a game or haven’t played it in a while and want to declutter my SSD. It copies my saves and settings to my NAS and then I can just delete everything and restore it later if I want.
I used gamesave manager for the same thing in my windows days.
This is interesting but I’m a little confused on the use case, as your normal backups of the system would include all your game saves anyways…
You can backup to a cloud provider to have cloud syncing between systems, similar to Steam’s. Also, most people do not backup their systems.
Having it in one place would be useful, since games often dump their saves in a variety of weird places so it could be easily lost when setting up a new system.
I roll my own by using
syncthingand then symlinking the directories etc to their actual locations.You’re assuming that everyone wants to back up their system though. On my gaming PC, I would literally want just this, I couldn’t care less about everything else. For me this would be useful. Would also be nice for my Steam Deck for my GOG games.
It didn’t occur to me that people would have a dedicated PC only used for gaming lol, that’s an expensive way to do it.
Its pretty common to have a gaming PC and a work laptop.
Oh I do too, just everything is synched between them because I hate working on a laptop for very long.
Yeah, my work laptop is for all my productivity, and it is owned by my work so doesn’t cause extra expense.
I use it for when I’m finished with a game or haven’t played it in a while and want to declutter my SSD. It copies my saves and settings to my NAS and then I can just delete everything and restore it later if I want.
I used gamesave manager for the same thing in my windows days.