TIL: Identifying and Backing Up Game Saves

I want to retire my old gaming PC and hand it over to a friend.

But before doing so, I wanted to make sure I had a backup of every saved game on that machine.

I wasn't exactly looking forward to this task, expecting to spend hours hunting down save files scattered across countless directories.

Today, I discovered Ludusavi (on GitHub).

This tool does the entire job with a single command:

ludusavi backup --path "E:\SteamSavegames" --force

In just seven minutes, it checked its database of over 50,000 games, identified 80 of them on my PC, and backed up all their save files to a network drive.

Some of those games I'd completely forgotten I'd ever played. 😄

Excellent tool!