Hints. Data can be backed up on Memory Stick™, SD Memory Card, CompactFlash®, and USB mass storage devices.
Getting Your Save File Onto Your PS3. Then unplug the USB from your computer, turn on your PS3 and plug the USB drive to your PS3. Step 5: On your PS3 go to the Game menu and scroll down until you find the Saved Data Utility option. Select it and then find and choose the USB Device (Storage Media) option as well.
An appropriate USB adaptor (not included) is required to use storage media with some models of the PS3™ system. Disc media such as CD-R cannot be used. A USB hard disk can also be used to back up data and will appear under the icon when connected. Note however that the disk must be formatted in the FAT32 file system to be recognized by the PS3™ system. Backed up data will be saved in the PS3 - EXPORT - BACKUP folder.
The folders are created automatically. If you change the folder or file name of backed up data, you may not be able to restore the data. If you perform any of the following operations after backing up, copyright-protected video files in the backup data may not restore correctly. Format the system storage. Restore the PS3™ system. Move copyright-protected video. Download copyright-protected video.
Play copyright-protected video that has a time restriction for the first time. If you back up data on a PS3™ system and then transfer data to another PS3™ system using the data transfer utility, copy-prohibited saved data that is included in the backup data cannot be restored on either system. Some types of backed up data can be restored on another PS3™ system. The types of data that can be restored on another system are as follows:. Saved data from PlayStation®3 format software.1.
Saved data for minigames ('minis'). Saved data for PSP™Game software. Image files under (Photo). Music files under (Music).2.
Video files under (Video).2. Bookmarks added under (Internet Browser). Terms that were added using (Settings) (System Settings) Add / Edit Term, or predictive terms that were 'learned' by the on-screen keyboard.1 Copy-protected data cannot be restored. Also, saved data that has been restored may not be usable in some games.2 Does not include copyright-protected data. In some cases, you may not be able to use the Backup Utility feature to back up or restore the system correctly. It is recommended that you always copy or move important data to storage media in order to independently back up your data.
You can transfer files from/to USB/Internal. You need a file manager to do the transfer. The first manager was 'Comgenie's File Manager' Wich was later incorporated to multiMAN. If you have multiMAN, you already have a file manager. Press Select+Start if this combo still exists, or find the place where to access it. Maybe you can even use the new Desktop mode in multiMAN to manage files. If you don't have multiMAN, you can use Comgenie's one.
Attention, HDD has few restriction: FAT32: Read/write, Comgenie/multiMAN NTFS: Read only, multiMAN If you use FAT32, big files larger than 4GB will be automatically un/split when you transfer it. If you want to split a big file on your computer to put the files on USB, there are few software capable of doing it. (Check my multiMAN guide in PS3 Faq section, I linked to few programs to un/split files on Windows). For WiFi transfers I thought I would just let them go while I slept last night, with the TV off, and when I woke up I found that it turned itself off at some point. Today while at school I had it going again, with the failed transfers re-queued, and when I got home there was a message in Filezilla asking me if I want to overwrite.
The console was off again. It never randomly shuts off while in use so is this an issue of it turning itself off while idle? If so is there a setting to change somewhere?
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Good to know that I can transfer between USB and internal hard drive, but a direct connection between the computer and the internal hard drive would be preferred - especially if I can't resolve the shut off issue. Click to expand.That worked, thanks. It was much quicker to copy the files to a USB thumb stick and then use Desktop mode in multiMAN to copy the files over.
Oddly, when I selected to 'move' the files it took over twice as long to delete the files from the thumbstick as it took to copy them over, and it still wasn't done by the time I decided to cancel letting it delete and then just select delete on my computer. One more question in regards: When I eventually decide to upgrade to a new higher capacity internal hard drive would it work to just copy all the files to an external hard drive, format the new internal hard drive, and then copy/overwrite the files on the internal hard drive? But if multiMAN is installed on the hard drive how would that work? Or would the system backup/restore feature backup everything - even unofficial folders? After seeing how much space even a single game takes up I have no doubt that I will want to upgrade eventually, but I want to wait at least until 2 TB internal are available. One more question in regards: When I eventually decide to upgrade to a new higher capacity internal hard drive would it work to just copy all the files to an external hard drive, format the new internal hard drive, and then copy/overwrite the files on the internal hard drive?
YES But if multiMAN is installed on the hard drive how would that work? You do PS3 backup utility first, which will backup multiMAN and other PSN contents. You then use multiMAN to copy all of your internal games to external HDD. Install new HDD and do the reverse.
Or would the system backup/restore feature backup everything - even unofficial folders? No it will not. After seeing how much space even a single game takes up I have no doubt that I will want to upgrade eventually, but I want to wait at least until 2 TB internal are available. 2TB SATA 2.5 inch HDD is already available, but none of them are in 9.5 mm height. It doesn't matter anyway, as PS3 supports up to 1 TB internal. Click to expand.Thanks!
I do have limited programming experience (C#, C, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, XNA, PHP, HTML), but I have not yet programmed under a Linux environment and my knowledge is sadly outdated. (I am in college to be a Genetic Engineer, not a programmer). Which programming language is involved?
I might take the time this coming Summer break to learn to program in a Linux environment. Hypothetically, if I were to successfully do all this, would I have to do the whole process again in the event that the PS3 breaks (heavens forbid) and I have to get a new one? Or might it be possible to change the encryption keys of a second PS3 to match that of the first one? I do have limited programming experience (C#, C, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, XNA, PHP, HTML), but I have not yet programmed under a Linux environment and my knowledge is sadly outdated. (I am in college to be a Genetic Engineer, not a programmer).
Which programming language is involved? I might take the time this coming Summer break to learn to program in a Linux environment. Hypothetically, if I were to successfully do all this, would I have to do the whole process again in the event that the PS3 breaks (heavens forbid) and I have to get a new one? Or might it be possible to change the encryption keys of a second PS3 to match that of the first one?