Hi all,I want to make a proper back up of my fsx (too much effort and time invested in there...)The question is which files / folders to include except of course the fsx main folder and fsx.cfg file?How should a re-installing of the complete fsx setup be made without having to re-install all add ons one by one again?Thanks,Christos

Hi all,I want to make a proper back up of my fsx (too much effort and time invested in there...)The question is which files / folders to include except of course the fsx main folder and fsx.cfg file?How should a re-installing of the complete fsx setup be made without having to re-install all add ons one by one again?Thanks,Christos

i got an external drive where i downloaded my whole drive onto, so if i get an hard drive crash or something else its just a matter of reinstalling again alot easier and painless.

I do basically the same, but i image my drive from time to time. If it crashes bad or if i want to restore my functionality to some point back in time, i just image back to the disk. I usually keep 3 disk images which i do every ~3 months.Before you ask, it's a 240GB SSD and the images use around ~70GB compressed. It's a lot of data, but it's also huge security.

Thanks for your replies but:I have fsx on a dedicated physical drive (F). All windows programms are on the other physical drive C.The question again is which other folders/files (except the fsx folder in drive F) need to be copied from drive C.For example the files in the "users" folder etc.Thanks,Christos

Thanks for your replies but:I have fsx on a dedicated physical drive (F). All windows programms are on the other physical drive C.The question again is which other folders/files (except the fsx folder in drive F) need to be copied from drive C.For example the files in the "users" folder etc.Thanks,Christos

so have i, i got fsx on a seperate drive with my windows on the other so i just mirror the drives to my external using acronis software , it downloads everything on both drives to your external drive in one go. as per the previous post i do increment back ups every month

Yep solution like Acronis or what ever are the best, is useless to backup folder of FSX.

I use Norton Ghost for this task. My FSX + OS drives takes approx 200 GB, 120-130 GB when backed up with compression. You can create the copy while in Windows, restoring is done offline (CD startup). It saved me few days, if not a week or more (complicated, add-on extensive setup). Please arm Yourself with such a tool and keep at least two backups of FSX + OS drives (in case the last one has something screwed).Backing up both discs (OS on SATA2 SSD, FSX on VelocityRaptor) takes 35-40 minutes (depend if PC is idle or I tweak something), restoring takes about 50-60 minutes.

That's definitely the best method. There are far too many folders to backup and files spread throughout the disk. If you forget an important one, you render most of the backup useless.