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07-19-2019, 05:55 PM | #1 |
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What is the difference between saving a game and backing up a game?
Perhaps I mean "league" but hopefully you get my question. Is it really important to back up a league that you do not really worry about a computer crash or such?
thanks.
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07-19-2019, 06:21 PM | #2 |
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Saves can get corrupted. Drives can be lost.
Best to make a few full backups a few times a season in case you need to roll things back in the event your save becomes corrupted or lost. |
07-19-2019, 08:11 PM | #3 |
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Saving overwrites the latest files of your league each time. Backing up creates a copy of your league files at that point in time.
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07-20-2019, 02:58 PM | #4 | |
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Others have clarified the distinction between a save (saves all progress in your saved game, with no ability to go back in time), and a backup (saves a point in time for your saved game). I agree with others who have said there is a great deal of value in running backups. OOTP is ultimately a file-based game, and as such, it's possible that something could get corrupted or damaged somehow. If you don't have a backup, your saved game could become unplayable with no resource. Many of us put HOURS upon HOURS into our games, so losing that would be incredibly painful. OOTP has a built-in backup feature, but really all it is doing is copying files on your machine, so you can just as easily do this in with Windows Explorer or whatever works on your machine. I really recommend you create multiple periodic backups of your saved game. For example, I tend to run a backup just before major events. So, I do one full backup on the day before Opening Day. I do another at the All-Star break, and one on the last day of the season. I keep these backups throughout the season in case there is a problem, at worst I'm losing a few game months of action. I do this just BEFORE major events because many functions in the game are locked to certain times in the season. For example, the schedule cannot be modified once the season starts. So if I made a backup on Opening Day, then later found a problem with the schedule, I would have no way to fix it. But with a backup from the day before Opening Day, I could go back to that backup, fix the problem, and move on. At the end of the season, I'll typically keep one save from that year, so I don't keep hundreds of old backups lying around taking up space. Good luck!
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07-21-2019, 10:04 AM | #5 |
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If overtime a large number of backups for a particular league had been saved, where would one go to purge out some of these backups?
I am probably too cautious when saving and backing up and have a tendency to do it very frequently Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
07-21-2019, 01:04 PM | #6 | |
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Well, if you’re referring to OOTP’s built in backup, there’s nothing to worry about there. There is just one OOTP backup that keeps getting overwritten every time you back up. If you have manually backed up and saved copies, then they would be wherever you saved them... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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