• @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      Why? That has completely different goals than this app. What is the point in backing up my entire Steam Deck and Gaming PC when I could have an app that’s backs up just the parts I care about and syncs between them?

  • Quack Doc
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    622 hours ago

    I wish ludusavi could handle game mods too, as a lot of games I play use mods (like stardew). Mods are essential for the saves there

    • MentalEdge
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      420 hours ago

      Mod management is orders of magnitude more complex in comparison to managing some save files.

      That’s kind of why there is no one mod manager that deals with every game ever.

      • @highball
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        118 hours ago

        Definitely lost my co-op Elden Ring save. My normal game play was saved of course.

        • Confetti Camouflage
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          26 hours ago

          I just cloned the existing rule for Elden Ring as a custom rule, but changed the extension to match the co-op save.

  • @[email protected]
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    219 hours ago

    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…

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 hours ago

      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.

    • naticus
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      417 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

          • naticus
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            132 minutes ago

            Yeah, my work laptop is for all my productivity, and it is owned by my work so doesn’t cause extra expense.

    • @gaylord_fartmaster
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      116 hours ago

      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.