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

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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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[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 month 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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[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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.