gospvg

I am saving all my games onto the 360 hard drive & the user profoiles are saved on a 512mb xbox360 memory card.
So this saving onto a usb key method, does any usb key work? Can I make a backup of that USB key to PC?

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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <20111209064724.eb9bf1a1.gospvg@nospam.gmail.com >,
gospvg <gospvg@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
>I am saving all my games onto the 360 hard drive & the user profoiles
>are saved on a 512mb xbox360 memory card.
>So this saving onto a usb key method, does any usb key work? Can I make
>a backup of that USB key to PC?

Theoretically any USB memory works, but you only get up to 16 GB of
storage no matter how much space is actually there. But you have to format
it using the 360 first, and it doesn't use a standard FAT32 or NTFS file
format. That means that you can't read the contents on a Windows PC once
it's formatted that way. I think that someone was working on Linux/UNIX
drivers to be able to mount 360 USB storage, but I don't know if that
project went anywhere.

One of the many online compatibility lists is here:

http://blog.yellowchilli.net/2010/04...ash-drive.html

It's discouraging how mnay USB devices end up being incompatible. I'm told
that this has something to do with the read response speed.

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gospvg

"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote in message
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>
> Theoretically any USB memory works, but you only get up to 16 GB of
> storage no matter how much space is actually there. But you have to format
> it using the 360 first, and it doesn't use a standard FAT32 or NTFS file
> format. That means that you can't read the contents on a Windows PC once
> it's formatted that way. I think that someone was working on Linux/UNIX
> drivers to be able to mount 360 USB storage, but I don't know if that
> project went anywhere.
>
> One of the many online compatibility lists is here:
>
> http://blog.yellowchilli.net/2010/04...ash-drive.html
>
> It's discouraging how mnay USB devices end up being incompatible. I'm told
> that this has something to do with the read response speed.
>

Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of
saving to a usb drive so you can back it up. I think what I will do is leave
my saves on the hard drive & just backup the saves files to my 512mb memory
card for the current game I am playing.


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jochta

On 09/12/2011 09:25, gospvg wrote:
> "Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote in message
> newscKdnXbLrs2HX3zTnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>
>> Theoretically any USB memory works, but you only get up to 16 GB of
>> storage no matter how much space is actually there. But you have to
>> format
>> it using the 360 first, and it doesn't use a standard FAT32 or NTFS file
>> format. That means that you can't read the contents on a Windows PC once
>> it's formatted that way. I think that someone was working on Linux/UNIX
>> drivers to be able to mount 360 USB storage, but I don't know if that
>> project went anywhere.
>>
>> One of the many online compatibility lists is here:
>>
>> http://blog.yellowchilli.net/2010/04...ash-drive.html
>>
>> It's discouraging how mnay USB devices end up being incompatible. I'm
>> told
>> that this has something to do with the read response speed.
>>
>
> Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of
> saving to a usb drive so you can back it up. I think what I will do is
> leave my saves on the hard drive & just backup the saves files to my
> 512mb memory card for the current game I am playing.
>
>

To prevent cheating? Downloading saves from PC to USB presumably doesn't
work.

Just backup to USB stick and use the HDD or internal memory for live
saves. The USB stick is the backup then.

Unless you want to move the saves between consoles when it might be
easier to do it the other way around.

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gospvg

"jochta" <usenet@ugvm.com> wrote in message
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>>
>
> Just backup to USB stick and use the HDD or internal memory for live
> saves. The USB stick is the backup then.
>

Yes will do that.

> Unless you want to move the saves between consoles when it might be easier
> to do it the other way around.
>

Have not had a need yet to set up the 2nd console, also I do not have a
spare TV


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deKay

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, gospvg wrote:

> Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of saving
> to a usb drive so you can back it up.

Saving it to a USB drive *is* backing it up

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On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:43:39 +0000, deKay wrote
(in article <alpine.OSX.2.00.1112091143040.629@imac.dekay.syte s.net>):

> On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, gospvg wrote:
>
>> Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of
>> saving
>> to a usb drive so you can back it up.
>
> Saving it to a USB drive *is* backing it up
>
> deKay
>

If you only have one backup copy, you don't have a backup.

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Hakk

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> In article <20111209064724.eb9bf1a1.gospvg@nospam.gmail.com >,
> gospvg <gospvg@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am saving all my games onto the 360 hard drive & the user profoiles
>> are saved on a 512mb xbox360 memory card.
>> So this saving onto a usb key method, does any usb key work? Can I make
>> a backup of that USB key to PC?
>
> Theoretically any USB memory works, but you only get up to 16 GB of
> storage no matter how much space is actually there. But you have to format
> it using the 360 first, and it doesn't use a standard FAT32 or NTFS file
> format. That means that you can't read the contents on a Windows PC once
> it's formatted that way. I think that someone was working on Linux/UNIX
> drivers to be able to mount 360 USB storage, but I don't know if that
> project went anywhere.
>
>

I put my Xbox USB stick into my pc the other day, and there was a hidden
folder, called something like Xbox 360. There was just one massive file
inside. Normally, the drive just shows up as having no space on it. Don't
know what I did, but pretty sure I could have backed it up.

Hakk


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[ste parker]

On 09/12/2011 09:25, gospvg wrote:
>
> Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of
> saving to a usb drive so you can back it up. I think what I will do is
> leave my saves on the hard drive & just backup the saves files to my
> 512mb memory card for the current game I am playing.
>

Apart from the fact that by copying to USB you'll have two copies of the
save, I'd say the main point of putting your saves on the USB is for
portability. As a form of backup it's a bit pointless though, you need
to copy saves over one at a time which is painful if you've got loads
and not something you'd want to do often.

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Toby Newman

On 2011-12-09, gospvg <gospvg@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> "Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote in message
> newscKdnXbLrs2HX3zTnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>
>> Theoretically any USB memory works, but you only get up to 16 GB of
>> storage no matter how much space is actually there. But you have to format
>> it using the 360 first, and it doesn't use a standard FAT32 or NTFS file
>> format. That means that you can't read the contents on a Windows PC once
>> it's formatted that way. I think that someone was working on Linux/UNIX
>> drivers to be able to mount 360 USB storage, but I don't know if that
>> project went anywhere.
>>
>> One of the many online compatibility lists is here:
>>
>> http://blog.yellowchilli.net/2010/04...ash-drive.html
>>
>> It's discouraging how mnay USB devices end up being incompatible. I'm told
>> that this has something to do with the read response speed.
>>
>
> Can't backup the usb drive is stupid, surely that's the whole point of
> saving to a usb drive so you can back it up. I think what I will do is leave
> my saves on the hard drive & just backup the saves files to my 512mb memory
> card for the current game I am playing.

I would have thought dd would be able to extract an image of the USB
stick, partitions and all.

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