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Acronis and Exclude Steam Game Files from Backup

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Hi.  I am using Acronis for both local and Acronis cloud backup.  I have two computers where the users have a lot of space used by Steam Games.  I am not very familiar with steam, but I believe the game files are stored at:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

I am planning on excluding this from the acronis backups since all the games can be downloaded again from steam.

Anyone see any issue with this?

thanks.

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Mike,

I see no problem in doing that.  Let us know your results.

It may be worth using a tool such as TreeSize Free to check where any very large folders are stored that may be used by Steam games in case they are in more places than the one common folder already identified?  Check the user AppData folders in particular.

Thanks all.  I am more concerned that I am excluding something that I will need.  I am not a steam user (my kids are) and from what I read, the folder I noted above is the game files and really no need to backup.  On a restore, I can just reinstall the games.  It looks like the game save files are stored in documents folder.

When programs are installed, there may be registered libraries, classes, etc. that may be referenced in the registry. Without the files, these links in the registry can be broken. While Windows is fairly good at not making real trouble when this happens, it can still leave junk around. Also, if you needed to restore and download again, that may mess up the links to the game save files as well.

You might want to consider making one special backup task for the games from this folder so you can just have one copy of it and not worry about continual backups. Maybe even keep it on a local thumb drive so if you had to restore the C: drive you could follow that with a simple restore of the one folder.