Backup

kuyenmotdivad · 10-08-2012, 01:11 PM

Anyone know whats wrong, when I backup using the steam backup on the menu - Darksiders 2 gets to 3 GB then stops responding and closes steam... I tried it 5 times and its getting annoying.

quickanddead · 10-11-2012, 01:54 AM

i cant use any backup at all for any other game,since format is unknown to me and there is no steaminstall.exe in backup,i gave up when i started to backup witcher from my disks but steam was downloading it instead..

A1R · 10-12-2012, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by quickanddead

i cant use any backup at all for any other game,since format is unknown to me and there is no steaminstall.exe in backup,i gave up when i started to backup witcher from my disks but steam was downloading it instead..

i know it, but that isnt really an issue

ONLY WHAT TO DO if you created a backup with such many unknown files (*.csm *.csd *.sis..)
without exe is =

-> copy paste ANY steambackup.exe from another backupfolder in the folder without exe

you can now install the game

{Yotsuba} · 10-13-2012, 02:59 AM

There's a bug with the back up system which won't let most games (generally the larger ones) on the new content system (ie. they use the depotcache naming) be backed up.

I pointed this out to support almost a month ago, but all they told me to do was uninstall Steam and reinstall it. Naturally, as the bug is in the code itself, that didn't fix anything. As far as I know, they've ignored my request to report this as a bug to the people who need to know. If only Valve actually provided a proper way of sending bug reports direct to the teams *sigh*.

By the way, if you're willing to persist, you might eventually get it to backup a game after 10 or 20 crashes.

rasitha_raw · 10-15-2012, 07:38 AM

you can just copy the game files to your back up drive as an alternative.
(I never use backup - too glitchy)

10-08-2012, 01:11 PM	#1
kuyenmotdivad Join Date: Aug 2011 Reputation: 0 Posts: 16	Backup Anyone know whats wrong, when I backup using the steam backup on the menu - Darksiders 2 gets to 3 GB then stops responding and closes steam... I tried it 5 times and its getting annoying.

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10-11-2012, 01:54 AM	#2
quickanddead Join Date: Mar 2011 Reputation: 54 Posts: 831	i cant use any backup at all for any other game,since format is unknown to me and there is no steaminstall.exe in backup,i gave up when i started to backup witcher from my disks but steam was downloading it instead..

10-13-2012, 02:59 AM	#4
{Yotsuba} Join Date: Sep 2007 Reputation: 1018 Posts: 5,566	There's a bug with the back up system which won't let most games (generally the larger ones) on the new content system (ie. they use the depotcache naming) be backed up. I pointed this out to support almost a month ago, but all they told me to do was uninstall Steam and reinstall it. Naturally, as the bug is in the code itself, that didn't fix anything. As far as I know, they've ignored my request to report this as a bug to the people who need to know. If only Valve actually provided a proper way of sending bug reports direct to the teams sigh. By the way, if you're willing to persist, you might eventually get it to backup a game after 10 or 20 crashes.

10-15-2012, 07:38 AM	#5
rasitha_raw Join Date: Mar 2011 Reputation: 270 Posts: 557	you can just copy the game files to your back up drive as an alternative. (I never use backup - too glitchy)