[d3viliz3d]

What's the difference between this and creating a WinRAR archive of the whole steamapp folder?
Just to know, nice job anyway man!

 

[d3viliz3d]

Nice man, +rep!
I will find it useful! We'll keep an eye on this thread in case of updates!

 

[d3viliz3d]

Can I suggest you guys a simple (I guess, uh) feature to work on?
It would be nice to have a selective restore, like, when you click on the Restore button you are showed a list with all the backed-up games, and you can choose which one to restore.

Can it be done? Tks!

 

[d3viliz3d]

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Originally Posted by Du-z

Hi d3viliz3d
The way steam stores its files makes it rather dificult to do this as any games that use the source engine has alot of files referncing each other than arnt in a single folder (ie any other game will have ALL of its files stored inside its on folder within "common"). also the program back up certain registry entries, it would be next to impossible to seperate the entries from eachother without creating a lot of extra uneeded reg entries.
if you only want to restore a few games, you can just grab it from the "\bin\common\" directory of the backup root and place it in "\Steam\steamapps\common\"
you might have to "download" the game agian it will the HDD for the game and install it, it may download a few misc files but after that it will be fine and dandy.
there are other compromises that I might be able to work with but for now ive been rather buisy on other projects, if you are keen you could always look at it ;p.

Got it, thanks for the reply!
I will restore the games manually then, looks like a fair deal

I'd like to have a look at it but I'm afraid I'm not comfortable with these coding languages

 

[d3viliz3d]

Some more ideas that could improve this. I don't know if it's possible, but oh well:
- Adding a completation % to know more or less the process duration, or an estimated completation time
- Making the size of the main window resizeable

 

[d3viliz3d]

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Originally Posted by Du-z

Those are some good ideas.
The % completed will be easy to do, thats just basic maths. however any form of time prediction get tricky because the speed of the backup depends on so many variables.
The resizing would be nice, but technically difficult to pull off because of the way the window changes sizes depending on how many instances are running.
thanks for the input +rep

Tks for the rep, wasn't needed ^^
Justa tip for the %... maybe you can avoid extensive math calculations just by using the number of files which need to be compressed...
e.g. 5 files = 100%, once 1 is compressed the percentual goes to 20%, then 40% and so on...