Best back-up options

[Peeky Chew]

Well after this has happened to Malachite, I really want to back-up my game. All I've got are some cds I could put it on, I don't want to buy anything else. So what else should I put it on?

 

[~JV~]

Make backups on your PC (in case of a blackout corruption), on Dropbox (or any online storage system) and on a pen drive. Thats what I do for Uranium, and I know it's almost impossible for me to lose it, the worst it can happen is to lose a few days of work what is nothing compared to the lose the entire thing.

 

[Great Mazinger]

You can very easily pick up a small memory stick (even 512MB to 1GB would be enough) for less then ten quid by now.

If you really must do it for free, just stick everything in one place and upload it to a file storage site periodically. This takes longer and longer the bigger what you're uploading is, though.

 

[zingzags]

i made a tut on this site but admins havent accepted it so i added it to this site

https://www.planetdev.net/showthread.php?294-TUT-Backing-up-all-your-game-files

 

[mr. ck]

Use a cloud...

There are many services that will help you and keep your data safe online...

There's a program called "GMail Drive" for windows which saves your data on your GMail account as E-Mail drafts.. That shows up as a drive and provides you as much space as GMail :D

But all of these will increase your Bandwidth usage, say you back up everyday, that's around 30 MB or more everyday...

Thumb drives aren't accountable but it's highly unlikely that you mess up your computer and the thumb drive at the same time...

DVDs are just not reliable enough, thumb drives are better...

I used to back up my data on my other computers, I have many computers at home...

 

[Worldslayer608]

Upload to MediaFire in a private folder, use a CD, flash drive, or even put it on a backup partition if you are just worried about something which would require you to reformat your HDD

 

[mr. ck]

Upload to MediaFire in a private folder, use a CD, flash drive, or even put it on a backup partition if you are just worried about something which would require you to reformat your HDD

I think you mean another HDD...

 

[Poeman]

No a partion would work...

 

[mr. ck]

if a hard disk goes down, so do all the partition...

You can't really mess up a specific partition unless Windows messes up, or you messed it up (while editing the partitions)

Its more likely your HDD fails.

 

[SpawnHyuuga]

You can also try an external program called 'G-Drive,' which takes advantage of a GMAIL Email Account.

 

[venom12]

Try pendrive and dropbox i using this.