HOW TO: Back up your GT Sport data (Pin me?)

fordlaser
I hope to see it pinned ASAP, because we do no want anymore Threads about this.
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Whether this is pinned or not, it's unlikely to affect the count of new users who register here and immediately post to ask why their cars and credits have gone missing - even if they do search (which few people do), a thread about after-the-fact backing up of game save data won't answer their question about their cars and credits going missing.
 
Pinning of this thread and linking some of the others like it. may help those that don’t know of the save data problems. I didn’t know about it till I saw someone talking about it and I had not been backing up any saves it was a few weeks later I was hit by it thankfully I had 2 different backups to rely on to restore my cars.
 
I just read this :

IngRobNy
Sorry but that will not work, I sold some cars and regret it later, I had those car on a USB, so I deleted the save from my PS4 and loaded in the other saving, I pulled the internet cable out, started GT S, my cars was back, but when i reconnected the internet, the game reloaded lastet save from the servers and the cars I had sold was removed.
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So, first question is why is this, what's been done wrong here probably ?
Second question is does anyone know what parts of the game data exactly are stored to cloud / USB ?

Read this also :

Draggon
I got the missing garage thumbnails bug. It fixed itself, then it "un-fixed" itself. Changing liveries, getting in the car or even driving it were only temporary fixes. Each time I went to the garage thumbnails for probably 250+ of the 288 cars I have did not show up. Finally on Saturday they were back for good. Seeing as some folks have lost their entire garage, I thought I'd better do an online save and backup to a USB.

So now I find that the thumbnails to all my liveries are gone. When I go to the livery editor, I see the name and date but no pic. I can open the livery and save it, and it will stay. However when I try to delete the "old" livery that has no pic, I get "operation failed" or something like that. Deleting in my library has no effect. So now I have 508 liveries I cannot see.

And the rub is that I saved to online storage, plus saved to a USB. So there's no going back, right? Any ideas? Even if I go back and re-do all 508 liveries I will still have the blank boxes that won't go away. I'm so tired of PD's bugs.

Any ideas?
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Are liveries part of a cloud / USB save at all ?
 
ROCKET JOE
So, first question is why is this, what's been done wrong here probably ?
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I think it is because stop us from sharing save data or stop us from manipulate our savings, our USB savings works just in offline as soon as we go online the servers write over your saving on the servers and PS4.
 
ROCKET JOE
So what is an offline save worth for at all ?
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I don't know really, I thought we could use those backup savings if our save data was corrupt, but if the game save over our save, what's the point? :confused:

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Maybe the GT S servers only write over our save if you are using a old save, so we can't go back if we have sold or bought cars we don't want if we regret it and if the save is corrupt, then you can load the USB save, because that would be the newest save?
 
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When I had a problem with corrupted data , i could not reload any backups saved . I had to uninstall GTS and do a fresh install and up date it but I can’t remember to which update it was,then I used the last game save. I had .That worked for me
 
@TheGeologist
Well, I hoped you'd react after the latest posts assuming you could tell us about the actual content of the GTS backup files and how to feed them back to the Sony / PD savegame servers in case something got corrupted. Did you do this once ? The posts above make me suspect it doesn't actually work so a backup would be completely useless ...
 
ROCKET JOE
@TheGeologist
Well, I hoped you'd react after the latest posts assuming you could tell us about the actual content of the GTS backup files and how to feed them back to the Sony / PD savegame servers in case something got corrupted. Did you do this once ? The posts above make me suspect it doesn't actually work so a backup would be completely useless ...
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I have never done it. This is a collection of knowledge from numerous users on this website. AFAIK, it works and I am almost sure others have had success here.

IngRobNy
Edit.

Maybe the GT S servers only write over our save if you are using a old save, so we can't go back if we have sold or bought cars we don't want if we regret it and if the save is corrupt, then you can load the USB save, because that would be the newest save?
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Is this in play? Or has ps made a change?
 
Just so everyone knows: if the save data on GT servers become corrupted or you delete them, loading a backed up copy doesn't help. The game will ignore offline saved data and you will be forced to start a new game. Only way you can play with your old backed up save data is offline.
(Starting the game offline and then reconnecting the game does not help, the game will overwrite your offline data with the new game online data.)

It happened to me few days ago...

fordlaser
If you had an old save on a USB, and you copy it to the PS4 it will overwrite the save on the server.
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No it will not.


Only SR, DR and Sport history will stay on the server.

Basically, backing up our save data is totally useless. It cannot be used afterwards anyway.
 
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fordlaser
If you had an old save on a USB, and you copy it to the PS4 it will overwrite the save on the server.
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Lord Protector
... No it will not.
Basically, backing up our save data is totally useless. It cannot be use afterwards anyway.
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:lol::lol::lol:
Guys, should I get my popcorn ready ?
Seriously, would be great to have some solid manufacturer's info on the topic, wouldn't it ?

I have a USB backup file ... thinking it could be proof of my game if I ever call the PD customer service :D !
 
ROCKET JOE
Will it overwrite everything, for example DR / SR ? And it actually is a permanent overwrite ?
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I am not sure
Lord Protector
Just so everyone knows: if the save data on GT servers become corrupted or you delete them, loading a backed up copy doesn't help. The game will ignore offline saved data and you will be forced to start a new game. Only way you can play with your old backed up save data is offline.
(Starting the game offline and then reconnecting the game does not help, the game will overwrite your offline data with the new game online data.)

It happened to me few days ago...


No it will not.


Only SR, DR and Sport history will stay on the server.

Basically, backing up our save data is totally useless. It cannot be use afterwards anyway.
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Well, I just put a old save form a USB to my PS4 overwrite the save and it worked well, so it does work.
 
ROCKET JOE
How can you, I mean ... YOU ... have access to the GT servers ?
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Easy, when you delete your offline save data, the game will ask you whether you want to load your online save data or you wanna start over. If you select start new game the online data will be deleted. Once done they cannot be restored. Believe me I tried ;)

fordlaser
No, I overwrite the save on the server.
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Could you give a proof then? I was unable to do it by any way I could think of.
 
Lord Protector
Easy, when you delete your offline save data, the game will ask you whether you want to load your online save data or you wanna start over. If you select start new game the online data will be deleted. ...
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Yeah, but that is not "having access to the GT servers". You cannot actively upload a USB backup to the savegame servers, I'm quite sure.

It would be some kind of two-step-access, if Fordie was right.
 
Lord Protector
Easy, when you delete your offline save data, the game will ask you whether you want to load your online save data or you wanna start over. If you select start new game the online data will be deleted. Once done they cannot be restored. Believe me I tried ;)



Could you give a proof then? I was unable to do it by any way I could think of.
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Perhaps you done something wrong ?. When did your corrupt save occur, and was it after the latest update or well before.
 
fordlaser
No, I overwrite the save on the server.
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ROCKET JOE
Yeah, but that is not "having access to the GT servers". You cannot actively upload a USB backup to the savegame servers, I'm quite sure.

It would be some kind of two-step-access, if Fordie was right.
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I am not sure what you mean.

fordlaser
Perhaps you done something wrong ?. When did your corrupt save occur, and was it after the latest update or well before.
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My save data were fine. I backed them up, deleted offline system save data, then deleted online save data, then copied my save data from ext. hdd to system storage and the game refused to load them. It was all done on the latest version of the game, 2 days ago.
 
fordlaser
If you had an old save on a USB, and you copy it to the PS4 it will overwrite the save on the server.
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It didn't do that in my case:

IngRobNy
I sold some cars and regret it later, I had those car on a USB, so I deleted the save from my PS4 and loaded in the other saving, I pulled the internet cable out, started GT S, my cars was back, but when i reconnected the internet, the game reloaded lastet save from the servers and the cars I had sold was removed.
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fordlaser
So all this happen soon after the 1.19 update, so it may be the update is the cause the problem with saves.
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It didn't help me, the old save I uploaded was also 1.19, 2 days older than the server save, but the game still loaded in the newest 1.19 save from the servers.

TheGeologist
Is this in play? Or has ps made a change?
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I don't know, I asked you guys :), just for the record I don't have PS +, so I can't save to cloud, I have to use a USB memory stick to backup my save data.
 
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Lord Protector
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My save data were fine. I backed them up, deleted offline system save data, then deleted online save data, then copied my save data from ext. hdd to system storage and the game refused to load them. It was all done on the latest version of the game, 2 days ago.
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So you had a backup save before the 1.19 update is that right ?.
 
@Famine
Would you ( can you ) please help ? The matter got quite confusing now - I got my own view on it but that is partly speculation so, no !
Is there any description, or a person who can safely say, how that whole savegame management works, what a backup can be good for and how it can be applied ?
 
ROCKET JOE
@Famine
Would you ( can you ) please help ? The matter got quite confusing now - I got my own view on it but that is partly speculation so, no !
Is there any description, or a person who can safely say, how that whole savegame management works, what a backup can be good for and how it can be applied ?
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A backup save to a online storage or to a USB is good to have, when you playstation dies or you have made a mistake on your current save, but don't let the backup save lapse for several days and backup your save daily, and never set your PS4 on Auto-upload to your online storage, because you can not go to your online storage to overwrite the save that have an issue.
A backup save on a USB, all you need to do is copy it from the USB to your PS4 and overwrite the current save, that is all you need to do, an of course backup to A USB daily.
You may lose your current photos and replays and stats and your painted cars if you overwrite the save from 2 weeks ago.
 
I'm not sure there's much point doing this. You can't validate the save you're backing up isn't corrupt. Exiting the game cleanly before shutdown is probably all you can reasonably do.
 

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