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I will be backing up the game saves I care about to USB drive in the future.

In a way, it's not all bad since a lot of those game saves were for games I started well over a year ago, and haven't played since.

It's like "do I even remember where I was in the game when I stopped playing it?"

Of course there are still plenty of games that I have where it's also "oh, right; have to start over from the top, so I won't even bother to play."



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How do I backup the stuff on PS3?? I have a 1-Terabyte external USB HDD, I can just plug it into a PS3?



It's not much harder than that.

The PS3 should recognize most HDD formats; if it reads in Windows/Mac, the PS3 will recognize it.
Go to System Settings > Backup Utility > Back Up
Select destination drive USB Device (USB Drive) and Enter.

That's about as in depth as anyone can get as it's a very straightforward process.



Sure... when ever i feel like it....



4 ≈ One

The drive needs to be FAT32. Most externals are FAT32 by default.



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akuma587 said:
The drive needs to be FAT32. Most externals are FAT32 by default.

 

I thought FAT32 has size limit of 4GB or so?



Dgc1808 said:
Sure... when ever i feel like it....

Hope you felt like it before your system broke. lol

About how long did it take from the time you filed the repair claim to the time it was ready for pick up?

 



errorrrr said:
akuma587 said:
The drive needs to be FAT32. Most externals are FAT32 by default.

 

I thought FAT32 has size limit of 4GB or so?

For a single file, yes, the limit is 4Gb minus 1 byte. The volume size itself can be up to 8Tb though.

What files would you have to backup that are 4Gb+ in a single file?