Backup and restore games to NAS

[Scruffy90]

Is it possible to backup and restore Steam, Origin, etc games off of a NAS? What I want to do is have a central location where all of my games live and then copy stuff over to my desired machine when I want to play said game.

[Co0kieMon5t3r]

It certainly is, I use a NAS to serve games directly and leave the drive mounted all the time...

I do have a 10Gbit connection between the box and my pcs though but it works well

 

The issue you'll run into is game saves, steam does a pretty good job at cloud saves but most stuff preferences/saves etc drop to your documents, you may have to watch out if saves dont sync across.

 

As you copy/delete them you'll find that steam will want to re validate if you drop the files in manually, not sure about origin...

[Scruffy90]

19 minutes ago, Co0kieMon5t3r said:

It certainly is, I use a NAS to serve games directly and leave the drive mounted all the time...

I do have a 10Gbit connection between the box and my pcs though but it works well

 

The issue you'll run into is game saves, steam does a pretty good job at cloud saves but most stuff preferences/saves etc drop to your documents, you may have to watch out if saves dont sync across.

 

As you copy/delete them you'll find that steam will want to re validate if you drop the files in manually, not sure about origin...

What is the easiest way to move games to a nas, using the backup feature within steam client?