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Automate Backup of Factorio Saves (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by stembolts@programming.dev to c/factorio@lemmy.ml
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I found this Python script a few years ago, it is simple enough that a non-programmer could understand 90% of it. I just remembered it had been running as a scheduled task all this time when I thought I had lost some saves.

Thought I'd post it here in case anyone can use it. Minor things are hard coded but they are few and easy to edit.

https://github.com/nonbhoward/backup_factorio_saves/blob/main/run.py

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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Neat. Mine are saved on steam cloud and in my system wide backups

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah yeah, I did that for a while until my save files started going over 200MiB, and I timestamp my base 4-5x per session, so I'm usually generating about 1-2GiB worth of save data per session (depending on the base). Steam cloud was no longer an option, so I had to fallback to some sort of manual solution.

Maybe Steam cloud is improved now? In that case I could re-enable it and have a double backup :)

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 months ago

My Factorio save list is... Unwieldy

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same. Dozens, maybe hundreds of files most of them 250-300MiB.

The nice thing about automation is I have no idea, it just works!*

  • (As long as your save files are in one parent directory.. and not in a place with other "zip" files)
[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 months ago

Snapshotting really helps too! (file system level)

[-] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

It's really cool! Though I just do a backup both to my external HDD with rsync and Steam Cloud

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