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

  • jetA
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    3 months ago

    My Factorio save list is… Unwieldy

    • stembolts@programming.devOP
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      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)
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        3 months ago

        Snapshotting really helps too! (file system level)