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How do you backup your downloaded ROMs? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use emulators that play directly from (.iso) or (.img) files, however as you probably know, most ROMs are downloaded as archives.

Do you backup your ROMs in their downloaded archived format? Or as uncompressed files?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If anybody has a good option let me know. I tried using one drive to back up my entire lunchbox install (about 780GB) and Microsoft said nope. Apparently they give you 1 TB of storage but if you upload too much they cut you off. Pretty lame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

@Outtatime probably they have an upload quota per each week/month. Just wait for a while and see if you still have the issue. Or just archive the full thing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah just buy a 1tb (or more) drive and backpack everything to it. Keep it in a safe place and it should be fine for 5 to 10 (maybe more) years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I do that. I just like a cloud option also. I was thinking of zipping it all and uploading to Usenet 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nice. Yeah I hear that. I saw someone else’s comment here that they have a torrent of all their games as their backup. As long as you had an offsite torrent copy of your files that seems like and excellent idea.