GARAGE CARS WIPED OUT AFTER UPDATE 1.14
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Tired Tyres
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- Tired_Tyres
- Tired Tyres
Go to PS4 main menu, select GT sport but don't start the game then press the Options button and the menu will pop up, then select Upload/Download Saved Data, and this below will come up next.
If your doing it for the first time you select Upload All, and when you save it on a daily basis you just need to upload your Game Progress Data only.
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- LordGrey
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That always sucks. I actually lost most of my PS3 save data some time ago and I just happened to have an old back up of GT5 save data and a couple of other games, and I really only have those backups for situations where I know something could go wrong. Its the easiest way to save future hassle, if its that important.
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- GTP_Famine
Data corrupts. It does it for fun. It can corrupt while reading, while writing, or because the HDD just chose that moment to have a hiccup. You can lose data by fire or flood. You can lose all of the data on your PS4 simply by losing access to your PS4 - if it ceases working, or is stolen, you can't get at the data on it.
For this reason, there's an informal law of computing that essentially states that data does not exist unless there are two additional copies of it. There's some variation on what classifies as a copy, particularly with regard to location: a file backup should be impervious to an incident that would wipe out any other copy of the file. For example, if you have all of your treasured photographs on your computer and make a backup to an external hard drive that's also in your house, if your house burns down or floods you lose both copies. One version of the law suggests a minimum separation of seven miles between each of three copies, in case of direct nuclear strike...
In general it's good practice to have three copies of any file that is particularly important; one active, one on removable media and one in cloud storage. It's also a good idea to ensure they're in different formats - for me, PS Plus is just too close to the PS4 itself, as you can only access the PS Plus saves through the PS4 and they, in effect, act as the same file. It's too easy to accidentally backup or restore a corrupt file over a good one (and if someone nicks your PS4, they can easily overwrite all of your PS Plus data before you realise it), so I wouldn't count one copy on PS4 and one copy in PS Plus as two copies.
This is sometimes informally referred to as the 3-2-1 law of data:
3 - Copies of any important file, stored in
2 - Different formats, with at least
1 - Offsite backup
If my GT Sport save file was important to me, I'd have one copy on the console/PS Plus, one copy on my computer/the flash drive I use to transfer between PS4 and computer, and the third copy on Dropbox. Backing up daily isn't necessary unless you have made important changes in that day, but backing up at least weekly is sensible.
Almost nobody does any of this.
For this reason, there's an informal law of computing that essentially states that data does not exist unless there are two additional copies of it. There's some variation on what classifies as a copy, particularly with regard to location: a file backup should be impervious to an incident that would wipe out any other copy of the file. For example, if you have all of your treasured photographs on your computer and make a backup to an external hard drive that's also in your house, if your house burns down or floods you lose both copies. One version of the law suggests a minimum separation of seven miles between each of three copies, in case of direct nuclear strike...
In general it's good practice to have three copies of any file that is particularly important; one active, one on removable media and one in cloud storage. It's also a good idea to ensure they're in different formats - for me, PS Plus is just too close to the PS4 itself, as you can only access the PS Plus saves through the PS4 and they, in effect, act as the same file. It's too easy to accidentally backup or restore a corrupt file over a good one (and if someone nicks your PS4, they can easily overwrite all of your PS Plus data before you realise it), so I wouldn't count one copy on PS4 and one copy in PS Plus as two copies.
This is sometimes informally referred to as the 3-2-1 law of data:
3 - Copies of any important file, stored in
2 - Different formats, with at least
1 - Offsite backup
If my GT Sport save file was important to me, I'd have one copy on the console/PS Plus, one copy on my computer/the flash drive I use to transfer between PS4 and computer, and the third copy on Dropbox. Backing up daily isn't necessary unless you have made important changes in that day, but backing up at least weekly is sensible.
Almost nobody does any of this.
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- Rallywgn81
Oh yeah? Well ive been playing since atari and let me tell you!
Anecdotal ancedote aside, i happen to work in enterprise storage, backup and recovery for a living on an environment with over 20 petabytes spread across three datacenters with thousands and thousands of hard drives. Equipment fails, sectors crap out, data gets corrupted. Ultimately, crap happens. Over my decades of play, ive only lost a few game saves to corrupted data, but i have. The first time it happened in GT5 was the last time i didnt backup. Now i try to back up weekly games that i play regularly and all important data on my computer is kept on a drive that is linked to my server and backed up regularly, with redundancy.
Crap happens, if you dont take precautions to protect your data, Murphy's law will evetually bite you in the tush. When it does, you will only have yourself to blame.
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- GTP_Famine
- 84,340
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- GTP_Famine
You need an online connection to save the game, but as it's not a multiplayer component you don't PS+ to save the game.
As far as I'm aware, Sport Mode is the only section that you need PS+ to access. A regular PS account should be able to access everything else when logged in. When logged out, what you say above applies.
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I have to echo other sentiments here... if you don't want to loose it, back it up.
I've had 2 HDD's, 32Gb SD card, and one remotely hosted website go south on me with no effective back-ups.
I recommend backing up, rather than learning the hard way.
I've had 2 HDD's, 32Gb SD card, and one remotely hosted website go south on me with no effective back-ups.
I recommend backing up, rather than learning the hard way.
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- 7,689
- Michigan
- Rallywgn81
The recommendation is the save about once a week. Auto backup will do it every save. If you dont auto backup and the game goes corrupt, there is a 1 in x chance, where x equals the number of times saved before last backup, of saving a bad file as opposed to the 1 in 1 chance of doing it with auto back ups.
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Went on and everything's fine. I will make an admission that I'm not one to regularly backup anything but I've had failures. They have irked badly but after a time I go back and start again. S**t happens, deal with it. PD and other firms who've been around long enough know to avoid error yet even they suffer the ignomy of data corruption and deletion. That's why once a week the check their systems and servers to make sure everything is running right. More over, with each of us now effectively connected to a world wide mainframe it goes with out saying that there is a greater chance of something going wrong (such as the internet connection fouling as it did to me today). The more complex the machine the more there is to fail. As others have said safeguard your data or accept the consequences (my saves aren't the centre of my life so losing them isn't as big a deal to me).
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Sure, stuff happens. But the data we're seeing in GTS in terms of a whole thread of people having their saves corrupted suggests that this is not just an unfortunate random occurrence, but an actual bug with GTS's save system. I don't see whole threads dedicated to total data loss for many other PS games.
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- Michigan
- Rallywgn81
You wanna toe, i can get you a toe, i know people Dude.
If you are referring to this thread, whay we have here is one person saying they had an issue and two pages of people telling them they should have made a back up. Between this thread and the one by GV27 we have a total of 2, not a thread full of examples.
If you are referring to this thread, whay we have here is one person saying they had an issue and two pages of people telling them they should have made a back up. Between this thread and the one by GV27 we have a total of 2, not a thread full of examples.
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This is the one I was referring to, I quickly counted about 10 people in that thread who lost all their cars, plus some others who had a few cars disappear. I've seen a couple other threads about it, but haven't done an exhaustive search.
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