anon_guy_anon
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for the restore to be successful? For example, I'm moving my Steam over to another internal drive. This way when I backup my Windows C drive the backup won't be so big (and long). But even though I can always re-download the steam files it would be nice to occasionally backup the Steam directory or the drive that has this directory on it so if I do lose these files I don't have to re-load all of them.
So lets say my C drive dies and I get a replacement (Shadowprotect image backup program allows me to restore to different hardware). I restore my C drive (windows xp) backup that was last updated 1 hour before the c drive died and then restore my D drive backup which contains the Steam folder. But the D drive backup is one month old.
Will everything work ok?
Please also tell me if it would matter if I used different backup programs for each drive. Sometimes I also use Paragon because it has autoshutdown.
I could occasionally do one big backup that covers both drives once a month or so but then when I restored it I would be losing all the other backups that occurred since then so that doesn't appeal.
So lets say my C drive dies and I get a replacement (Shadowprotect image backup program allows me to restore to different hardware). I restore my C drive (windows xp) backup that was last updated 1 hour before the c drive died and then restore my D drive backup which contains the Steam folder. But the D drive backup is one month old.
Will everything work ok?
Please also tell me if it would matter if I used different backup programs for each drive. Sometimes I also use Paragon because it has autoshutdown.
I could occasionally do one big backup that covers both drives once a month or so but then when I restored it I would be losing all the other backups that occurred since then so that doesn't appeal.