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Noob Question: What's your process for backing up your Steam Deck? (kbin.social)
submitted 10 months ago by Eggyhead@kbin.social to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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I've got an RMA on my Deck over a sticky button issue, so I ordered a 1TB external drive online to back it up before wiping and sending it off.

What's the bare minimum you would recommend I back up if I just want to preserve my desktop settings, apps, and some non-steam game content (since much of that is already tied to my account)?

  1. Is it just a matter of copying folders over in desktop mode or is there an official (or recommended) backup tool I should use?
  2. Would Syncthing, which I use to transfer files normally, be a reliable method to use my Mac as a potential backup location?

Thank you for any advice.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 months ago

By and large, I don't. The vast majority of the data on there is already backed up to the Steam servers.

As for stuff like emulator saves: I set up a nextcloud on my NAS that will synchronize the saves between my deck and my desktop.

But if you are just doing bulk backup? rsync is your friend. Works on every modern OS and is rather trivial overhead wise.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I only back up emudeck saves. The rest is cloud saves or a game that I'm not bothered to play again becauseit wasn't fun or they didn't implement could saves.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 10 months ago

Settings of apps installed via Discover are stored in /home/deck/.var/app. Settings of the desktop and pre-installed apps including Steam are stored in /home/deck/.config and /home/deck/.local/share.

For backing up I wouldn't bother much with differentiating between stuff I want to keep and stuff I don't. I'd back up everything in my home folder with sudo rsync -avP /home/deck /WhateverTheLocationOfTheDriveIs. Let the Deck format the drive for you and then this command will copy the whole deck folder over and preserve all permissions. You can start it over if you get interrupted for some reason and it will pick up where it left of.

I'd only worry about what to copy back when setting everything back up again. But I probably would just start everything from scratch to get rid of garbage.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I only back up emudeck saves. The rest is cloud saves or a game that I'm not bothered to play again becauseit wasn't fun or they didn't implement could saves.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I would setup the external drive with Clonezilla and take a drive image of the internal Steam Deck drive. That will preserve everything and it will restore everything once you get the Deck back from Valve. I did a Clonezilla image when I upgraded my internal drive, and it worked out great.