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What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/games
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For example; GOG games - what happens if they were to shutdown their busieness. How would you archive these games if you had to?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

With GOG, I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.

With Steam, I was burning discs using its offline backup tool, but I haven't had a disc drive in my PC for years now. IDK if those can be backed up into a thumbdrive these days... It only allowed CD/DVD images to be created the last time I ever used it.

Tons of my games were owned physically before Steam existed though. Those I just keep in their boxes in my closet/storage bins.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.

I hope you're powering up that thumb drive every few weeks. Flash memory will lose charge if left unpowered for too long, corrupting your data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I usually just leave it in the computer until I need to take it somewhere.