LefterisJP/steam_saves_sync

Tool to sync save games between a local game in Steam and some other storage like Dropbox

Introduction

This is a tool I made for syncing save games across different machines to/from Dropbox. DO NOT USE without backing up your saves first. For an in-depth guide please refer to this blogpost.

Usage

Calling the script is pretty straighforward:

./steamsaves_sync.py

In my Archlinux machine I use dunst as a notification daemon to show notifications in my windows manager (i3-wm).

This script assumes that you also have dunst installed. If you don’t or if you don’t want to get desktop notifications for each change the script does then also add the --no-notify option to the script.

Once called the script will attempt to check all the save files from the local location and see if a corresponding save file is in Dropbox. If yes then it will check the save timestamp to see which one should be kept and keep it. Finally all Dropbox saves will also be checked to see if any saves are missing from the local directory.