Posted July 19, 2021
nightcraw1er.488: So customers should assume that websites run indefinately? Anyways, I wouldn’t bother with blue rays or that type of media, it soon becomes a huge pile. Hdd’s are the way to go. If you have 400 games, and they are old ones, chances are you can fit them on a couple of 2tb external drives. On the great and evil master site (Amazon) you can pick up 2 tab hdds for around £50 which is only twice the price of a pack of Blu-ray Discs.
SirTawmis: Naturally, just like any store - a website can go under, easily enough. As for stacking up - they do, mostly for personal stuff (documents, pictures, etc).
But for games and MP3s - I typically just back up by date, so if the last time was 12/20/2020.
Say, come July, I'd just back up data from that date to now.
Most of the games I enjoy, as you said, easily fit (mostly Sierra games). But I've purchased things like Pillars of Eternity and all the extras, and such that are larger.
But again - I am just weighing in on it'd be a cool feature for those that don't have TB drives (or don't wanna dig through DVD/BluRay back ups) to be able to check mark some games, and download - figure the download could be managed by GoG Galaxy, if someone wanted that option. I don't need it (I don't even remember the last time I reimaged my machine, I work in IT - so I hate effing around with my own own machine), just thought it would be a cool feature.
In terms of back, yep, I do 4 loops, main machine, backed up to raid box weekly. That is backed up to 2 other boxes monthly. And then the occasionally timepoint saves as well. It’s quite simple with freefilesync, obviously costs a bit to get going. Wait till they get quantum break or something like that here, 100gbs upwards!