Posted October 18, 2012

ChaunceyK
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Registered: Jun 2009
From United States

v o i d | flower
Gloomy User
Registered: Mar 2010
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012
External HDD.

Maighstir
THIS KNIGHT MISLIKES THESE HEIGHTS
Registered: Nov 2008
From Sweden
Posted October 18, 2012
Currently only my "general downloads and other unsorted files" HDD. Whenever I decide to spend the money needed to build a relatively decent network storage solution (ie. conforming to the specs I already drew up), I'll move them there (together with everything else on said drive, and a few others).

CodeCow
Möbius 1
Registered: Apr 2011
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012
External Hard-drive!

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted October 18, 2012
External HDD, mostly so I don't have to download the game I decide to install. I download them when I buy them or when they are updated, then move them to the external HDD.

timppu
Favorite race: Formula__One
Registered: Jun 2011
From Finland
Posted October 18, 2012

Those GOG games which I back up, I back up to a 2 terabyte SATA drive(s) I bought the other day. They are connected to my laptop through an USB case into which I connect the SATA drives.
The most critical data I back up to two different hard drives, in case one of them dies. At this moment GOG games don't fall into this critical category, as I still feel confident I can re-download them in case of such mishap.

SimonG
SimonG597
Registered: Sep 2010
From Germany
Posted October 18, 2012
The internet. I got one polish company having all games + extras backed up for me. And if they fail for some reason a multitude of users have the games backed up on their machines and available.

bazilisek
gone
Registered: Oct 2009
From Czech Republic

timppu
Favorite race: Formula__One
Registered: Jun 2011
From Finland
Posted October 18, 2012
And as some have suggested, at this point my main reason to back up GOG games is not for the case if and when GOG closes doors, but so that I have faster access to them in case or (re-)installation. With small files the download time does not matter, with bigger yes. I still have just a measly 10Mbit/s ADSL line at home. :(
With e.g. my DotEmu games, it is already a bit more about that "what if they close doors" case, even if they necessarily don't. I think I won't be even revisiting that site anymore much, so maybe at some point I will forget the whole site, and my account/password to it.
And in case the apocalypse really comes, I for one will not be sharing my GOG games to the lazy ones who didn't back them up, sorry. ;) Also, PBay is inaccessible from here (blocked by ISPs), so I can't really use it as my personal backup storage either, especially due to its trojans.
With e.g. my DotEmu games, it is already a bit more about that "what if they close doors" case, even if they necessarily don't. I think I won't be even revisiting that site anymore much, so maybe at some point I will forget the whole site, and my account/password to it.
And in case the apocalypse really comes, I for one will not be sharing my GOG games to the lazy ones who didn't back them up, sorry. ;) Also, PBay is inaccessible from here (blocked by ISPs), so I can't really use it as my personal backup storage either, especially due to its trojans.
Post edited October 18, 2012 by timppu

zomgieee
Vault Dweller
Registered: Jun 2009
From Australia
Posted October 18, 2012
NAS with Raid 1 (mirrored) HD's.
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DRM Sucks!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012



HereForTheBeer
Positive Patty
Registered: Oct 2009
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012
Backup is easy: simply don't go through the motions of deleting the downloaded installation file(s). Set the gOg downloader to save them to some special place, and your work is done.
That said ; ) mine are backed up twice more: My Games under My Account, and a portable USB hard drive.
That said ; ) mine are backed up twice more: My Games under My Account, and a portable USB hard drive.

cuppscakes
Old Curmudgeon
Registered: Jul 2011
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012
Home FTP server for easy access.

SpiderFromMars
life on mars
Registered: Jul 2009
From Spain
Posted October 18, 2012
External USB HDD... and thinking of double backing now... hmmmm

fortune_p_dawg
constipationisbad
Registered: Aug 2011
From United States
Posted October 18, 2012


I can just imagine me and my family somehow surviving an apocalypse of some sort, and me rounding up my wife and kids after a month of eating dead people to traverse the irradiated wasteland accross town to retreive my USD hard drive full of GOG games. LOL!