Charliebob49: The game Sword and the stars - The pit - Osmodium Edition has an issue with updating the main game with one of the patches thru Gog Galaxy! Note I renamed the existing folder I had to do a fresh install.
The main game (1.1GB Download)which installs and plays fine if I use the shortcut that is created but then it tries to download a 69MB file which I assume is a patch and maybe the dlc's, and the update failed with no message. Again the game still runs from the shortcut and it save the game info.
The main issue is that the update periodically continues to try and update and fails. This is downloading that 69 MB file every time and failing when it tries to install it. I have limited data on my internet and this is not acceptable. The only way I can stop this downloading and failed install over and over is to rename the folder so it will not be availible to Gog Galaxy!
Any suggestions?
You can disable autoupdates in Galaxy settings -> Game features -> Game data features. You can also disable Galaxy overlay there and Galaxy won't open when you run game from the shortcut.
Xeshra: Burned CDs are not good for "long time storage" so this is a bad idea if you want to preserve a secure backup, A pressed BDXL (the one a PS5 got) is another story, they have a much longer endurance... perhaps up to 50 years if you treat them well and if temperatures are always constant in a dry environment,
HDDs, this is a special matter because, the data itself, on a healthy HDD, may last 10 to 20 years if you treat them well. Simply have to make sure there is no errors with the data integrity (MD5 checks is a good idea, most games natively got one but you should use a external check too... before you turn the HDD into your "long time archive".) And to be sure, you should make at least 2 more backups of the HDD. If you even want to have it perfect... copy the data to another (new) HDD every 5 years, this way it is almost failureproof. But you can also "rewrite" the data every 5 years, so the data is more easely readable and the HDD may even last 10 years and up without issues.
In my mind, any other way of backing up data is less secure. The SSDs got 2 weakness. One of them is the price of course... and the second one is, if they are without power for many years they might totally lose any charge inside their cells.°°° A HDD, if stored well, generally is able to hold its data for a longer period but the mechanism can become faulty at some point or the helium may leak and it may malfunction after... so the mechanics is the weak spot here.
°°°Usually they are always moving the data around their cells and becoming fresh power this way, so in this case the charge is being renewed which us helpful. So a SSD enjoy being used... just not to much overwrites.
However: SLC is actually good for long time storage (not TLC) but the costs is not affordable anymore. A modern 8 TB SSD may work in SLC up to 3 TB (always 1/3 of the capacity) but... the cost is huge. I use a SSD for my OS in SLC mode... and cooled well, this way the OS may last almost forever.
Durability of HDDs actually amazes me. I have laptop with Windows 98 from 1999 and it still works well on the same HDD and OS from the beginning! I still play some old games on it. :P Of my external HDDs, and I have many, only one died - 3tb Seagate one. I even heard it crashing ;_;, but I have 3 separate backups of everything so no panic. :)