I am a bit suprised though that so many people actually use DVDs as their backup solution. I bought a Seagate 1 terabyte USB hard drive a couple months ago for $60 and I think it's awesome. I

I have a bit of a backup routine... I'll create a folder on my desktop with the name of the game I wish to backup, then download EVERYTHING (extras, Mac & Linux versions, language packs) for that game to said folder. I then place that folder on my USB hard drive, on which there is a folder with the name "PC Gaming" which has sub-folders named after various online digital retailers. So for intance, when I buy Bioforge from here in the next couple of days it's going to go here:

F:\My Stuff\PC Gaming\GOG.com\

And when I bought the Humble Indie Bundle 6 the game's folders went here:

F:\My Stuff\PC Gaming\HumbleBundle.com\

And when I bought Titan Quest Gold the game's folder went here:

F:\My Stuff\PC Gaming\GamersGate.com\


And yes I keep the duplicate games on there too. I have a "SpaceChem" folder under both "F:\My Stuff\PC Gaming\IndieGameStand.com\" and F:\My Stuff\PC Gaming\GOG.com\" for instance.


Sure, it might be a bit convoluted but it helps me feel organized.

I just set up a custom made NAS using FreeNAS. I plan to backup everything there.
My previous Iomega NAS suffered a horrible death due to overheating.

I'd burn them to DVD if it wasn't for a) the effort necessary to organize good "collections" to efficiently fill up the DVDs and b) the comparably high probability of updates even for old games. As long as we don't get a warning that GOG is going to shut down soon I will only keep copies on a regular hard drive.

Thanks very much!

Putting your faith in pirates is a bad move. I have plenty of games on disc where a cursory search has revealed absolutely no torrents, no P2P shares and no uploads to file sharing sites.

Yeah, but how many GOG games can you say that about?

Yah, this is a bit of a problem with the odd GOG game. The ones I can think of off hand are Riddick, Alan Wake and Amerzone, which won't fit on a conventional single-layer DVD-R.

Keep wishing here that the InnoSetup installer would be modified to ask where the next segment is so that I can point the installer to it, but alas...
At present? None, because certain TPB uploaders (the cunts...) take pride in uploading the full set of GOG downloads.

As and when GOG eventually shuts down, however, the question remains as to how many of these uploaders will keep uploading and seeding...

Actually, I think it could be crucial to your and your family's continued sanity =P

In order to maintain my sanity GOG has to release Dark Omen sooner or later. It was on every "games for the lonely island" list I made.

I back mine up on a website called Pirate Bay. It's great because it means other people hold onto my games for me for when I need them!




Obligatory Disclaimer: This is a joke and bears no grounds in reality, the poster of this comment, does not, nor has he ever, shared a game from this website over a Torrent network. Moreso the poster would not consider this action to be fair especially given that the legal ramifications will involve being eaten by a certain gog employee's hat.

That's still more than twice the speed I got.. add that to my ISP thinking it's perfectly ok to be down for a week every now and then, I happily "waste" disk space on local backups of my games. (And, given the circumstances, me joining Steam is as likely as getting a full body tan in Helheim)

DVD's. Seriously considering using something I can erase and resave on like an external drive. but if something happens to the external drive then i could lose everything, while if something happens to one dvd I only lost what I saved there.

What I don't like is having backups of things that eventually get updated. My Witcher 2 backups took 3 dvds and a long time to download. Now they have a newer version and my backup DVDs were non rewriteable.

flash drives seem like a good idea too, but they're expensive. Then again, they're much smaller and rewriteable.

I store my GOGs on a small file server. I periodically back that up to a dedicated partition on my desktop. Eventually I'd like to setup another file server at my mother's place for tertiary backup but that may be too ambitious.

You mean online? How do you do that exactly, does it cost you much? I have an external hard drive that I keep filling with all kinds of crap, at some point I'll have to go buy a new and larger one.

External drive. I don't trust burned CDs and DVDs anymore. But that said I buy from GoG because I can re-download from them.