Save sync about lutris HOT 11 OPEN

Hi! I recently created a cross-platform save backup tool and data set that (I hope) could be helpful here. It's called Ludusavi, or you can use the data set on its own (it's in YAML). The data is sourced from PCGamingWiki and kept up to date by a script so that it's easy for everyone to contribute to it.

@strycore Do you think this might be suitable for integrating with Lutris? For comparison, it could work similarly to the Playnite plugin for Ludusavi, which can automatically back up saves for a game when you finish playing it. That integration uses Ludusavi's CLI with machine-readable output.

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1. This is a fantastic idea, especially since you could have it link to Dropbox or another online provider and have cloud saves for every game (not needing Steam and not relying on developers to do it)
2. Where is the wiki? I don't see anything about it on here.

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If the user can select a directory themselves through settings easily then the user can simply select the Dropbox folder or whatever service they prefer so I think it would be easiest to let them decide.

Thanks for the link!

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This is one of the Patreon goals so it will come!

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Following up from the conversation in #5407, the Ludusavi manifest now includes Lutris slugs from the PCGamingWiki articles that have them (per this template), in case you'd like to try using it as a data source. Right now, there are 2,302 games with known slugs, and if anyone adds missing slugs to the articles, they'll be added to the manifest automatically.

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Yes that would be a great enhancement. We should discuss this on the wiki, it seems to complex for a single bug report.

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Yes, that's a pretty cool feature, I haven't decided yet if we'l take care of syncing everything on a remote server or if we centralize everything on a local directory then the user syncs whichever way available.

The wiki is available at http://wiki.lutris.net

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Yes, whichever way we choose to go, that will remain possible. The part I'm not sure about is the symlinking bit, it seems a bit touchy to take all the user game saves and put them in an arbitrary location (despite the fact that I actually do that most of the time). Instead of putting everything in a single location, it may be better to make a backup of these saves and sync them when the user start / exits the game.
Personally, I'd rather have a backup of all my game saves rather than a system that as a single point of failure, putting all my saves at risk.
@Xodetaetl any thoughts about this?

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Hmm. Well the symlinks don't actually move anything so they wouldn't make it any worse than a typical user's non-backup setup. If the symlinks were used to gather all the data together it would be easy to make a backup based on that folder full of symlinks though.

Perhaps an option to do a local backup of the symlinks folder would be best?
Since if you pick the location to be a cloud storage folder that service would provide backups for you, but some people prefer local.

Seems like best of both worlds that way.

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New (big) feature so unfit for 0.4.0 which is 0.3.8 in python3. We'll start working on this right after 0.4.0.

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Any news about this? Maybe take a look at how https://www.gamesave-manager.com/ handles its linking. It would be a great thing to have something like that

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