Hacking NAND-Backup still possible and save?

[BATMAN-]

Hello everyone,

I am very sorry if my question has been asked a hundred times before but I want to be 100 % sure
on how to do it. So in August I bought a second Switch that is being used solely offline - it
never connected to the internet when I started modding the console, personally I dont even care about
being banned since this console is only being used for offline purposes.
I don't know why but I did not create a NAND-backup - many of you guys advice thoroughly to do it
and I think that it is absolutely essential.

Excuse my nooby question and let me ask:

If I have games installed on the internal storage of the Switch, do I need to delete them so the internal storage
is completely emtpy or could I proceed in creating a NAND-backup with games installed on the internal storage?
Is there any risk of doing a NAND-backup with installed games on the sd card (NSP'S, XCI'S)?

Once again a big thanks to all of you guys trying to help on this forum!

Any help is greatly apprecaited.

// should have been 'safe' instead of 'save' in the title, sry

 

[Kubas_inko]

Does not matter what you have installed. You can Backup anytime.

 

[BATMAN-]

So even if there is stuff installed on the sys-storage the NAND backup will still be the same as if there was nothing installed on it?(minus the fact, that my Switch is probably flagged by Nintendo, which I don't care about)?

Thanks for your fast response, really appreciate it!

 

[Kubas_inko]

Yup. You would just restore your games as well (once you restore the backup)

 

[BATMAN-]

Awesome! Thanks for your help, Sir!

 

[carlskie]

About nand backup can i save my nand to pc so i can free up space for other games on sdcard?

 

[Ashura66]

About nand backup can i save my nand to pc so i can free up space for other games on sdcard?

That is EXACTLY what you should do

 

[carlskie]

How? Is it the whole folder of backup under sxos?

 

[Ashura66]

How? Is it the whole folder of backup under sxos?

If i'm not mistaken the NAND files are as follow:
BOOT0
BOOT1
rawnand.bin

 

[carlskie]

Thanks i just transfered the whole backup folder to pc to be sure and deleted the backup folder on sdcard after