PS3 Looking For An External Hard Drive

[bigdoc85]

A few helpful things:

1. On your PS3 main screen, go to Settings / System Settings / Backup Utility to back up the entire hard drive.

2. To format your external hard drive to Fat 32, use the MiniAide Fat 32 formatter:

http://download.cnet.com/MiniAide-Fa...-75701815.html

3. An entire back up is not necessary for just game saves which will fit nicely on a USB drive. Nevertheless, a periodic backup of your entire hard drive is not a bad idea, especially if you ever need to replace your hard drive or move to a new PS3.

Quote: Originally Posted by daflyboys

Utility via the PS3? Or via your PC and some FTP type program? Can you explain?

[lhslancers]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigdoc85

A few helpful things: 1. On your PS3 main screen, go to Settings / System Settings / Backup Utility to back up the entire hard drive. 2. To format your external hard drive to Fat 32, use the MiniAide Fat 32 formatter: http://download.cnet.com/MiniAide-Fa...-75701815.html 3. An entire back up is not necessary for just game saves which will fit nicely on a USB drive. Nevertheless, a periodic backup of your entire hard drive is not a bad idea, especially if you ever need to replace your hard drive or move to a new PS3.

I don't have any movies or pictures saved on my PS3 hard drive and with the exception of two of my games they are all on disc. Why would I need to back up the hard drive given that?

[bigdoc85]

Backs up settings / preferences, etc. in addition to game saves. Makes it easier to restore everything if you have to go that route.

Quote: Originally Posted by lhslancers

I don't have any movies or pictures saved on my PS3 hard drive and with the exception of two of my games they are all on disc. Why would I need to back up the hard drive given that?

[daflyboys]

Including entire full digital games?

[bigdoc85]

It may depend on the game. In some situations, you may have to download the game again from the PSN store in order to use it on a new hard drive / PS3.

Quote: Originally Posted by daflyboys

Including entire full digital games?

[Burns11]

I believe it will back up everything, but won't restore everything unless it's to the same PS3 (it won't restore anything protected by DRM to a different PS3).

The exception might be videos purchased from PSN, I think they have different crazy DRM rules and won't be backed up.

[bigdoc85]

Thought I would also post this link if anyone needs a free RAR file opener. I have used this quite a bit with roster files that I have downloaded:

http://download.cnet.com/RAR-File-Op...ml?tag=mncol;1

[Burns11]

I just use 7zip for everything