Guys,
Just freed up a couple of hundred gig on my server, so thought I'd back up my steam games.
1. My total Steam folder on the computer is 80 gig.
2. The backups, of ALL games, total 70gig.
3. In folder "steamapps", there are a load of .gcf and .ncf files totalling 10gig. These are called content, materials, maps, etc, of the various games.
Now, I've not tried restoring steam games from back up for a long long time, but we're moving house, and I thought it was best to safeguard, rahter than have to download 80gig in the new house. I recall when I DID try and restore a back up, years ago, it had to download lots of stuff anyway, and I remember thinking "well, what was the point of that?"
So... does anyone have any recent experience of steam back up?
Do games have to download more content, over and above updates since the backup was carried out?
should I copy the contents of the folder "steam apps", as I'm hazarding a guess that as they are not in the actual games folders, and as they just HAPPEN to equal the difference between the size of my steam folder and the total size of my backups, they have not been backed up?


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