Does it make sense to do a new nandmin backup after you've installed all your games? Or will it be the same as when you back it up during the cfw installation?
Every time you backup your nand it'll retain whatever it has on it, so, yes I guess it makes sense.Does it make sense to do a new nandmin backup after you've installed all your games? Or will it be the same as when you back it up during the cfw installation?
OK thanks. I didn't know if it actually backed up installed games too.Every time you backup your nand it'll retain whatever it has on it, so, yes I guess it makes sense.
But as long as i have the sd card i wouldn't have to reinstall anything right?It won't backup games.
It might just backup the tickets if I'm not wrong.
Games are installed on the SD card. So backup your SD with your Nand backup
But as long as i have the sd card i wouldn't have to reinstall anything right?
Exactly. If i have my sd card and restore my nand it will have all my games installed already. Meaning my system will look exactly like it did when i created the nand backup. Right?Here is what happens.
You need to have a ticket for that app for it to show up on the home menu (running it depends on CFW or not). When you do a nand backup, it backs up those tickets. Now if you were to do a backup, then download a new game, then do a nand restore, while the game is still on the sd card, the ticket is no longer on NAND, so the app does not show up on the home menu. This can be fixed by visiting the eshop or reinstalling the app if it is not from your eshop (if using dev menu, when trying to install the app, it will say it already exists and cancel the install, but still would have installed the ticket and the app would be on your home menu)
Waste of space to backup SD card just for games imo. You can always re-download the games. Make it a habit to back-up your save games once in a while and you're golden .. backing up the whole SD card is just pointless tbh.
Better to be safe than sorry
Excuse me but how does what you said apply to anything that's being discussed in this thread? Backing up the whole SD card for the sake of backing up games is not being "safe". You can always re-download the games .. You can't even argue about that. I recommended to back up the saves once in a while which is enough.
Regardless if it's for the games or not, backing up the sd content as a whole is vital in case something happens.
Because it just annoys the fuck out of you to have to re-download a mass of games and lose your saves - imagine people having 50 games installed, you can spend the whole day reinstalling them. And if you back up 50 saves, you're better off just cloning your SD once in a while. Takes like 10 minutes. If your SD breaks, restore image to new SD, done.Um no it isn't. Care to explain in detail why you think it's "vital"?
Because it just annoys the fuck out of you to have to re-download a mass of games and lose your saves - imagine people having 50 games installed, you can spend the whole day reinstalling them. And if you back up 50 saves, you're better off just cloning your SD once in a while. Takes like 10 minutes. If your SD breaks, restore image to new SD, done.
NAND backups are usually only needed before doing anything that could break your nand, like installing something to nand or system updating and something goes wrong for example
Annoying is not same as vital. The dude above suggested as if you don't back up your SD card then you're in deep trouble .. hence the word "vital".
I see your point though, but I don't necessarily agree with it. However as far as your example goes .. 50 games would not take 10 minutes to restore lmao. Not sure what sort of superspeed hi-tech SD card from the future you have but making a 1:1 copy of the SD card or restoring it takes far longer than just 10 minutes .. And the bigger the backup the longer it obviously takes.
As you see - there is literally no reason to not back up your sd occasionally. We are not speaking of every day, but maybe once every other week - just to be on the safe side. And NAND backup whenever you mess with NAND files or update something vital. Then nothing can happen that makes you lose progress.