Cloud Saves via Dropbox?

silentq

Just a thought that occurred to me, but would it be at all possible for some kind of syncing feature be built in to send all game saves and possibly save states to a dropbox account assigned by the user upon exiting each rom? This function would obviously work great for Pi3 users with the new built in Wifi as well as those with WiFi dongles on their older Pi hardware. Again just an idea but I figured I would mention it.

Russelkm

I was looking for something similar, and people refered me to PiAssist. You can google it. Piassist can make a backup of your saved games and restore it. But it doesnt save directly on dropbox

MikeDave

I went through this recently as well. I don't use PiAssist because it feels like overkill just for Dropbox. Instead, I implemented my own using the same repo that they did.

I cloned andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader, and added a couple of scripts to ~/RetroPie/retropiemenu/ for backing up saves and syncing with Dropbox. Unfortunately, there's no automatic syncing. It's just blind copy, upload, download, and overwrite.

Actual Dropbox syncing would be huge, but this works for me. If you're interested, I can share my scripts and setup steps. But if PiAssist works for you, that'll probably be easier.

robertybob

@MikeDave Yes please!! I can't understand why something like this hasn't been added to the Experimental Menu in RetroPie yet.

Do you have all your saves in one folder or sorted by system?

#Edit# Seems the Dropbox API used is v1 so this will stop working in June 2017. Others have posted their own forks with API v2 support e.g. https://github.com/severach/Dropbox-Uploader and https://github.com/rudiedirkx/Dropbox-Uploader

MikeDave

@robertybob Thanks for the heads up about V1 of the API. I will definitely start looking for an alternative.

Do you have all your saves in one folder or sorted by system?

I have separate scripts for moving save files into a backups directory. I might try updating retroarch.cfg to put saves into a directory along side the roms folder and then updating my scripts to back those up instead, but I only found out that's possible last night so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Here is a gist that outlines what I did and how to accomplish it yourself. Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions for improvement.

robertybob

@MikeDave Did you ever get the chance to look into V2 of the API?

LaserGecko

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/2px590/automate_nightly_backups_of_your_retropie_saves/

It's not Dropbox, but it worked last year. I haven't installed it on my new setup, though.

robertybob

@LaserGecko Thanks I'll check this out ! :)