Hacking how many of you backup everything on your R4?

[Sinkhead]

Only the saved games. I have a folder on my PC with all my ROMs in, then another for saves. I just use a batch script to automatically copy over all .sav files when I insert my MicroSD card!

- Sam

 

[retman]

Only the saved games. I have a folder on my PC with all my ROMs in, then another for saves. I just use a batch script to automatically copy over all .sav files when I insert my MicroSD card!

- Sam

Is Drag 'n' drop your save into another folder to hard for you?

 

[O.G]

Only the saved games. I have a folder on my PC with all my ROMs in, then another for saves. I just use a batch script to automatically copy over all .sav files when I insert my MicroSD card!

- Sam



Is Drag 'n' drop your save into another folder to hard for you?

Well, automation and ingenuity is what allowed the flashcart scene to innovate: That's the reason that we don't have to use donor cards anymore. The answer is not the menial task of transferring files onto the microsd, but human convenience.

 

[SynGamer]

Only the saved games. I have a folder on my PC with all my ROMs in, then another for saves. I just use a batch script to automatically copy over all .sav files when I insert my MicroSD card!

- Sam


Is Drag 'n' drop your save into another folder to hard for you?

When you have 20-25 savs you need to copy over, Sam's way is a lot easier. Speaking of which, could you PM me the batch file?

 

[retman]

I looked into the Batch File stuff and found out yeah, it would be more easy to use a Batch file. But i just cant get it to work.

 

[tipsy]

No, I don't backup my DS-X at all. It haven't crashed on me once since I got it

 

[retman]

AH! I created a Batch file and now its working.

So now, yeah i do backup

Better to back up because i have important saves.

I will run the batch every 4 days

 

[JacobReaper]

lol ^^

 

[TeraS]

i want the batch file plz

 

[PuyoDead]

Yea, I just back up my saves. No point in backing everything else up, when most of it is on CD/DVD anyway. Saves, on the other hand, I make sure to keep a constant backup.

 

[Dardon]

I back up saves at least weekly It's a good thing I did because my older SD card decided it wanted to be reformatted all over again, thus I lost everything on the card. The saves were backed up 2 days before, so I lost only 2 days of work on 3 games or so.

 

[Canadacdn]

I only back up my saves, because I can get all the homebrew programs and stuff back if something horrible happens.

 

[Overwhelming]

By batch file, you mean something like:

copy x:\*.sav c:\SAVbackup\

Write that in a txt file, change it's extension to .bat and it's ready?

 

[lawliet]

I'm just too lazy to do so. Perhaps I should start doing so...

 

[Sinkhead]

By batch file, you mean something like:

copy x:\*.sav c:\SAvb script: 
[code]@ECHO OFF
set sdir="C:\Documents and Settings\Sam\Desktop\BackupSaves\"
xcopy "\*.sav" %sdir% /s
ECHO Backup completed
pause

Place that in a .bat file on your MicroSD card's root. If you want it to automatically run when your MicroSD is inserted look for tutorials on Google for autorun.

- Sam

 

[OSW]

I keep a backup of everything.

although i don't actually back up the whole cart each time, i just copy what has changed and save files.

edit: oh yeah, i archive my saves bu date kinda like the guy below.

 

[Cyan]

I backup manually, because batch file cannot do what I want (Or maybe I don't know how to do it).


I like to backup every instances of a save file every time I do the save process and keep them all.
For example last week I played and saved, say, ouendan. I add the date of the backup -> 0083 - osu! tatake! ouendan!(2007 07 20).sav
I played the game, and today I backup the save again -> 0083 - osu! tatake! ouendan!(2007 08 05).sav

If, for some reason (that already happened a lot with my G6), the last save file is corrupted, I still have save game working and I don't need to play the game again from the beginning.

I had ouendan1, megamanZX, mario & luigi (gba), etc. corrupted, this helped me.

So, I would like a batch process to check the "last change" date of the file, and check if the "filename+date" file already exist on the computer, if not then save and append it with the last changed date, else check next file.


maybe doing it in C or PHP if I have time.
Meanwhile, I'll do it manually, it's still the best.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

I backup my entire card into a zip archive using a free backup software called SyncBack.

 

[Killermech]

Never backuped once (for the purpose of making sure my saves don't get lost, just backuped once when I formated the card.. obviously

) and till it actually corrupts any of my saves.. I never will.
Had it for 8 months now and still going

 

[Sinkhead]

I backup manually, because batch file cannot do what I want (Or maybe I don't know how to do it).

Try looking at this page for info on using dates in batch files.

- Sam