DrRazorDoom
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I bought a PS5 with VR2 in December '23. I have seven games that I play, all VR2; one is No Man's Sky (>1100 hours since May '24). I have a 1TB thumb drive that I do backups to (don't trust PS+). I occasionally do full game backups of my PS5, i.e., games, game data, and settings. However, most often I backup the game data and settings only (< 3GB vs. >237GB).
On 1/25/25, while playing No Man’s Sky, I accidentally did something that got rid of a ship acquired during an expedition. No problem since I have a game data backup from 1/23. After doing the restore game data restore, all of my games, except for GT7 which has a disk, went away, i.e., nothing was restored and my games were gone. So, I did a full restore of all my games and data (237GB) from July '24 and that worked (but all progress of everything was obviously gone). So, I tried again with the 1/23/25 file - same result and same result when I restored the 237GB games and data file. This time, I tried a game data backup from 12/24/24 - same result (all games deleted). What I've done now is restore, again, the July '24 file.
I would really like to get my game data back from 1/23/25. Has anyone actually successfully restored their game data and settings only (not the games but the game data) on a PS5? If so, how did you do it? I thought about copying the game data file to a smaller 5GB thumb drive and trying that but would like to know if this has happened to anyone else and what did they do.
In advance, thank you!
On 1/25/25, while playing No Man’s Sky, I accidentally did something that got rid of a ship acquired during an expedition. No problem since I have a game data backup from 1/23. After doing the restore game data restore, all of my games, except for GT7 which has a disk, went away, i.e., nothing was restored and my games were gone. So, I did a full restore of all my games and data (237GB) from July '24 and that worked (but all progress of everything was obviously gone). So, I tried again with the 1/23/25 file - same result and same result when I restored the 237GB games and data file. This time, I tried a game data backup from 12/24/24 - same result (all games deleted). What I've done now is restore, again, the July '24 file.
I would really like to get my game data back from 1/23/25. Has anyone actually successfully restored their game data and settings only (not the games but the game data) on a PS5? If so, how did you do it? I thought about copying the game data file to a smaller 5GB thumb drive and trying that but would like to know if this has happened to anyone else and what did they do.
In advance, thank you!