Hacking Nand backup for installed games?

[Bu2d85]

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?

Right, as long as the contents of your sd card did not change drastically then everything will be there.

 

[comput3rus3r]

Yes because the SD card is expected to break so often that I really must think ahead in the future how awful it will be to reinstall the handful games I actually play. Oh my god I will likely die of old age before all my games are installed at this rate.. Not.

I backup my saves with JKSM and that's it. I play one to two games at a time, so that's one to two saves to back up when I feel like it. If my SD card breaks then 1) I have the weekly backup and 2) I can reinstall the games. Literally no other relevant data is lost so I don't understand why you're making it out to be such a big deal.

You're not gonna see me in such a thread because first off it's unlikely that the SD card will break, and if it does then I will re-download my games. As simple as that. Surely I can go on and not play my 3DS for few hours it takes to reinstall the games? You clearly can't .. I guess you spend every waking moment of your life playing it since re-downloading the games is just too slow for you? Good for you. I guess you don't sleep either? Considering with freeShop you can queue downloads and set it so that the console shuts off once done - which is what I'd do if I had a massive amount of games to download .. I'd sleep and let it do it's thing.

Let me copy you here .. "I see that you simply don't want to understand that different people will approach things differently, and the way I do things works for me.. I'm sorry it's so different from yours that you feel like you have to convert my way of thinking."

Since I don't always have reliable Internet access, I much rather backup to hard drives. It's been my practice for decades and I'm glad I have done this too because there are lots of things that although readily available years ago, are hard to find today. But I appreciate your comments.

 

[Quantumcat]

Since I don't always have reliable Internet access, I much rather backup to hard drives. It's been my practice for decades and I'm glad I have done this too because there are lots of things that although readily available years ago, are hard to find today. But I appreciate your comments.

I agree with @Distrance mainly but this is the one good reason for having a physical backup. Although, it would be more economical to just get the cia files of the one or two games you're currently playing using CIAngel and back those up, along with your save data. It's a waste of time and space having backups of gigabytes of games that you're not currently playing, which is what happens when you backup your whole SD card or Nintendo 3DS folder.

 

[naddel81]

doing NAND AND SD card backups once a year sure it no hassle for anybody who loves his games, settings and saves.

 

[Distrance]

doing NAND AND SD card backups once a year sure it no hassle for anybody who loves his games, settings and saves.

What's the point to do an SD card backup once an year? If you're gonna back up your games and saves with such a crude method then why be half-assed about it? Backing them up once a year would mean that if you just backed them up, and in ten months your SD card breaks .. Gz. You just lost 10 months worth of save data

 

[naddel81]

What's the point to do an SD card backup once an year? If you're gonna back up your games and saves with such a crude method then why be half-assed about it? Backing them up once a year would mean that if you just backed them up, and in ten months your SD card breaks .. Gz. You just lost 10 months worth of save data

man, you shouldn't take everything so word-for-word. I do it once every 3 months and I do not even play very much (an hour a week would be exaggerated). my gf plays about 1 hour a day and she hasn't had a single SD or NAND failure in the last 12 years (DS time counts as well). So if you are really paranoid about data loss (which is VERY VERY RARE) then do it regularly (like I do). Or just do it after finishing a game.
Or be light-hearted (like my gf and maybe 99% of all users) and not give a damn crap about it. will most likely be fine, too.

 

[godreborn]

I still think u should backup ur data, at least sd cards/memory sticks/memory cards on two hdds if possible. hdds r a different story since not many people have the cash or the space to backup them. with the 3ds, I have 88GBs of space used up. I backed up all of my games, and I don't want to do that again.