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This is interesting but I'm a little confused on the use case, as your normal backups of the system would include all your game saves anyways..
You're assuming that everyone wants to back up their system though. On my gaming PC, I would literally want just this, I couldn't care less about everything else. For me this would be useful. Would also be nice for my Steam Deck for my GOG games.
It didn't occur to me that people would have a dedicated PC only used for gaming lol, that's an expensive way to do it.
Its pretty common to have a gaming PC and a work laptop.
Oh I do too, just everything is synched between them because I hate working on a laptop for very long.
Is your work laptop owned by you? That I would definitely understand. Mine is owned by my organization and I want nothing personal on it ever as a result. I like how I can compartmentalize work from entertainment that way.
Yeah it is. How do you manage your personal stuff like banking and everything if not on the PC?
Almost all my banking is done from my phone. It's rare I need to sit in front of my PC to do so. But that also doesn't need backed up, it's all web accessible. I do download all my bank, credit card, and loan statements monthly, but I store all of that in my Proton Drive, nothing remains on my PC. I call it my gaming PC because that's what it's for 90% of the time, but I do use it for personal stuff too. That doesn't really change the fact that literally nothing needs backed up aside from game saves.
Gotcha, different use cases for sure haha
Yeah, my work laptop is for all my productivity, and it is owned by my work so doesn't cause extra expense.
You can backup to a cloud provider to have cloud syncing between systems, similar to Steam's. Also, most people do not backup their systems.
Having it in one place would be useful, since games often dump their saves in a variety of weird places so it could be easily lost when setting up a new system.
I roll my own by using
syncthingand then symlinking the directories etc to their actual locations.I use it for when I'm finished with a game or haven't played it in a while and want to declutter my SSD. It copies my saves and settings to my NAS and then I can just delete everything and restore it later if I want.
I used gamesave manager for the same thing in my windows days.