PowerGod
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I always was a keeper for save game files, in the end when I put some effort on a game I like to maintain my progress on it.
There was a time when I had just few games, and was easy to maintain manual backups... then the game number started to grow, and I opted to use scripts made by me that became more and more complex to maintain... in the end I started to use generic backup tools, but still I had to constantly remember to add/update every single game path containing save information ...
The most important thing anyway was to actually KNOW the position of the files or registry entries containing the save information of a game... I had to go around the system folders or searching in some internet database to find them for every game (and every version of a game).
Now I have thousands of games, that are constantly installed and uninstalled, leaving around save games of every kind that I don't find the time/will to track ...
Some specific backup tools for exactly this purpose were born in the meantime (Game Backup Monitor, Game Save manager, etc...), I tried some of them but I was never happy with them for a reason or another...
...until now.
Ludusavi
This program will scan your PC to find every kind of save game it can find (even if the main game is not installed).
You still are able to add even manual entries or more paths to the existent list.
This thing has a simple interface, but has everything needed, from quick filters to direct links to the interested folders, it shows the size of everything that will be managed.
The backup type can be chosen between complete and differential copies, compressed or not, etc... and all the information of the original position will be maintained in the backup.
If you'll need to restore a backup from another PC or user, there's a way to automatically replace a base path with a new one, so to get the file in the new correct position.
This program is multiplatform, open source and "almost" portable, it has just a single executable, but the configuration goes automatically in the user folder.
github.com
The list of paths used by Ludusavi to find save games is maintained by the ludusavi-manifest (used by default by Ludusavi), that gets information from various sources, including www.pcgamingwiki.com
(There is anyway the possibility to add more manifests to the program, or even disable this one if for some reason a better list is found somewhere else...)
github.com
Ludusavi has also a pretty complete command line interface
github.com
An interesting thing I also found is that it is able to backup its own configuration... it's not a game save, but I added it in the custom backups.
There was a time when I had just few games, and was easy to maintain manual backups... then the game number started to grow, and I opted to use scripts made by me that became more and more complex to maintain... in the end I started to use generic backup tools, but still I had to constantly remember to add/update every single game path containing save information ...
The most important thing anyway was to actually KNOW the position of the files or registry entries containing the save information of a game... I had to go around the system folders or searching in some internet database to find them for every game (and every version of a game).
Now I have thousands of games, that are constantly installed and uninstalled, leaving around save games of every kind that I don't find the time/will to track ...
Some specific backup tools for exactly this purpose were born in the meantime (Game Backup Monitor, Game Save manager, etc...), I tried some of them but I was never happy with them for a reason or another...
...until now.
Ludusavi
This program will scan your PC to find every kind of save game it can find (even if the main game is not installed).
You still are able to add even manual entries or more paths to the existent list.
This thing has a simple interface, but has everything needed, from quick filters to direct links to the interested folders, it shows the size of everything that will be managed.
The backup type can be chosen between complete and differential copies, compressed or not, etc... and all the information of the original position will be maintained in the backup.
If you'll need to restore a backup from another PC or user, there's a way to automatically replace a base path with a new one, so to get the file in the new correct position.
This program is multiplatform, open source and "almost" portable, it has just a single executable, but the configuration goes automatically in the user folder.
GitHub - mtkennerly/ludusavi: Backup tool for PC game saves
Backup tool for PC game saves. Contribute to mtkennerly/ludusavi development by creating an account on GitHub.
The list of paths used by Ludusavi to find save games is maintained by the ludusavi-manifest (used by default by Ludusavi), that gets information from various sources, including www.pcgamingwiki.com
(There is anyway the possibility to add more manifests to the program, or even disable this one if for some reason a better list is found somewhere else...)
GitHub - mtkennerly/ludusavi-manifest: Backup info for PC game saves
Backup info for PC game saves. Contribute to mtkennerly/ludusavi-manifest development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ludusavi has also a pretty complete command line interface
ludusavi/docs/help/command-line.md at master · mtkennerly/ludusavi
Backup tool for PC game saves. Contribute to mtkennerly/ludusavi development by creating an account on GitHub.
An interesting thing I also found is that it is able to backup its own configuration... it's not a game save, but I added it in the custom backups.
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