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That feeling when you back up all your steam games

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Backing up all my steam games onto an external. It feels so good to have them all archived on a drive 

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Anyone else know this feeling?

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why does that feel good, i can just download all my games again at 20mb/s. That feels pretty good

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75 mbps...

Backup lol....

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why does that feel good, i can just download all my games again at 20mb/s. That feels pretty good

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I tried backing up my games once. The default file name was the combination of all the games I backed up which ended up being too long for Windows to handle. Steam didn't recognize the backup folder either. I couldn't even delete it because of the long name. I had to do some command promt nonsense to get rid of it.

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I can download at 160mbps...(In the UK, using the ISP Virgin Media.)

Well I was gonna say 100Mbps, but quite clearly you're the champ! :D LOL

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I can download at 160mbps...(In the UK, using the ISP Virgin Media.)

 

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I wish they gave higher upload, maybe 20Mb/s, but I'm not moaning. The service is great.

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I'd backup mine, if I ever find the time to play all of it again

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Don't mean to hijack the thread but, quick question?

 

Can you re-download from steam as many times as you like or is there a limit.

 

I bought a bunch of stuff in the Steam sale and installed it but now I have to pull my P.C. apart for a re-build and re-installation of Windows. Is there a limit to the number of times you can download the stuff you've bought?  

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Don't mean to hijack the thread but, quick question?

 

Can you re-download from steam as many times as you like or is there a limit.

 

I bought a bunch of stuff in the Steam sale and installed it but now I have to pull my P.C. apart for a re-build and re-installation of Windows. Is there a limit to the number of times you can download the stuff you've bought?  

 

There is no limit as far as I know.

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There is no limit as far as I know.

 

Thanks, that's good to know. I know Bioshock limited installations at launch but I mostly retro-game so I've not really been following it. 

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Thanks, that's good to know. I know Bioshock limited installations at launch but I mostly retro-game so I've not really been following it. 

 

I think that's third-party DRM that comes alongside some Steam games. There'll be a big warning sign if that's the case on individual games that have a third-party DRM.

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there is No limit on downloads/installations for steam. Why would there be; the games are simply linked to your account.

I too archive my steam games (the ones which i like). Not to an external disk But to my internal mechanical HDD. The few installed games which i am currently playing reside on my SSD. Games are getting really big So i don't want to have to download them more than once.

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My downloads are pretty fast so the archiving's not really an issue for me, it's just the number of installs (my Microsoft Office ran out of installs recently and I didn't even know there was a limit).

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Backing up all my steam games onto an external. It feels so good to have them all archived on a drive 

I love you based gaben :wub: .

 

Anyone else know this feeling?

Both of the computers in my home have full continuous backups, so, yes. I know that feeling.

I (we) can restore from a backup drive faster than any one can download their data. Kudos for getting a backup.

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Don't mean to hijack the thread but, quick question?

 

Can you re-download from steam as many times as you like or is there a limit.

 

I bought a bunch of stuff in the Steam sale and installed it but now I have to pull my P.C. apart for a re-build and re-installation of Windows. Is there a limit to the number of times you can download the stuff you've bought?  

you can re-download as many times as you want, but I like having an external HDD backup as I don't have 100MB/s download. 50MB/s read/write from my external is more than ample and I can load my games quicker. But when you have fast internet (like google fiber) PLEASE DOWNLOAD IT'LL BE SEXY

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Both of the computers in my home have full continuous backups, so, yes. I know that feeling.

I (we) can restore from a backup drive faster than any one can download their data. Kudos for getting a backup.

Yep! Plus when I have no internet and I need a reinstall, I can play games off of my external :)

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in uk? that is crazy. my parents live out of the city so connection isn't the best they get 10/10. upload almost never reaches 10, but download is 10.

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in uk? that is crazy. my parents live out of the city so connection isn't the best they get 10/10. upload almost never reaches 10, but download is 10.

Yeah, Sky internet yo. I still get host in Cod Ay Dubz which makes no sense but meh.

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I have 134 games on my steam account. I keep almost all of them on my 2TB RAID 0 drive and a few on my SSD. They are essentially all backed up. When I reinstall my OS, I simply re associate the D drive and games with my library. It's actually more complicated for my main C drive and have to re download those games. Steam should simply have a cut and paste similar to Origin when re associating games. You should be able to simply target your game files again and it re establishes a link with the game files. 

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Backup games? What is this 2001? Has 9/11 happened yet?

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