Backing up vs copying the .lg directory?

wellsoliver · 07-19-2010, 02:26 PM

Is there some difference between doing a quote-unquote "Backup" inside the game and just copying the .lg directory somewhere?

wellsoliver · 07-19-2010, 02:28 PM

Welllllll I guess I could read the manual!

Andreas Raht · 07-19-2010, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by wellsoliver

Welllllll I guess I could read the manual!

Great idea

Well, I would use the buil-in backup system for the daily backup - but I would use an external backup software to backup the complete league folder to an external drive from time to time.

SteveP · 07-19-2010, 03:20 PM

I have a somewhat different take on it from Andreas.

I tend to play out seasons slowly, so I have the game set to do the automatic save every day. That way, if there is a significant crackup on a given day, I only lose that day (I manually crash the game, if I need to, to ensure the previous save isn't overwritten). Andreas also created a secondary auto-save feature in the game, which duplicates key league files (except for the world-dat file on Macs, which needs to be fixed). So that's another fail-safe mechanism.

I use the built in backup at significant intervals (when I create a league; after the end of a season; at the start of the next pre-season). AFAIK, this backup is an identical copy of what's in the league folder.

I have the external backup going as well (using Time Machine), which allows me to completely restore any OOTP file or folder, from any previous time. That's my goto place if I have some really major problem that can't be fixed from using the other systems.

FWIW

wellsoliver · 07-19-2010, 03:38 PM

Interesting thoughts- thanks. Right now I just have my .lg file being copied to Amazon S3 every night (well, using rsync, so it copies only what's changed).

SteveP · 07-19-2010, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by wellsoliver

Interesting thoughts- thanks. Right now I just have my .lg file being copied to Amazon S3 every night (well, using rsync, so it copies only what's changed).

Keep in mind that that works only if you are saving (and/or quitting) the game each day before the sync. If your game is still running, and you haven't saved, you aren't getting the benefit of the backup. You probably already know that, but other folks reading this thread may not yet realize this.

07-19-2010, 02:26 PM	#1
wellsoliver Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 337	Backing up vs copying the .lg directory? Is there some difference between doing a quote-unquote "Backup" inside the game and just copying the .lg directory somewhere?

07-19-2010, 02:28 PM	#2
wellsoliver Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 337	Welllllll I guess I could read the manual!

07-19-2010, 03:20 PM	#4
SteveP Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,109	I have a somewhat different take on it from Andreas. I tend to play out seasons slowly, so I have the game set to do the automatic save every day. That way, if there is a significant crackup on a given day, I only lose that day (I manually crash the game, if I need to, to ensure the previous save isn't overwritten). Andreas also created a secondary auto-save feature in the game, which duplicates key league files (except for the world-dat file on Macs, which needs to be fixed). So that's another fail-safe mechanism. I use the built in backup at significant intervals (when I create a league; after the end of a season; at the start of the next pre-season). AFAIK, this backup is an identical copy of what's in the league folder. I have the external backup going as well (using Time Machine), which allows me to completely restore any OOTP file or folder, from any previous time. That's my goto place if I have some really major problem that can't be fixed from using the other systems. FWIW

07-19-2010, 03:38 PM	#5
wellsoliver Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 337	Interesting thoughts- thanks. Right now I just have my .lg file being copied to Amazon S3 every night (well, using rsync, so it copies only what's changed).