Backing up data on the ps3's hard drive

[Rike255]

Originally Posted by kingofgrills

If you do a full system backup to an external USB connected hard drive, does that hard drive have to be dedicated for PS3 use? I have a 500 MB iBook external drive connected to my PS3. I've always wondered if I could use that drive to do a full backup of the PS3. Will that work? Will it hose my PC backups on it?

Thanks for the help. My 60 gig drive is just about full, mostly game installs and game save files, and I really want to upgrade it. I just don't want to lose a ton of info in the process.

It's just a back-up file if I remember right. It puts it in a folder on the hard drive automatically. Called PS3 -> Backup or something like that. It does it all automatically. I've never had to do a restore with it before and the HDD I used was empty so I didn't check if anything else was lost. But you'll be fine. Maybe someone who's actually looked into these things can help more.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Rike255

It's just a back-up file if I remember right. It puts it in a folder on the hard drive automatically. Called PS3 -> Backup or something like that. It does it all automatically. I've never had to do a restore with it before and the HDD I used was empty so I didn't check if anything else was lost. But you'll be fine. Maybe someone who's actually looked into these things can help more.

Correct it just creates a folder based on a datestamp with files inside.