Back up question

[Galdor23]

Simple: Whats the best way to back up ps3 data (including trophies) before changing a hard drive?? thanks in advance!

[Latikos]

You only need to sync the trophies when you're online with your Ps3.

As for the backup: I simply used what the ps3 offers: I plugged in an external hard drive via USB, then Settings --> System Settings --> Backup Utility --> Backup

[broy300]

Just my opinion as I have done this twice (from a 40 Gb to a 320 Gb, then a 320 Gb to 1Tb)

-Buy PS+ for 3 months and backup all your save data

-Forget about backing up your game saves, reinstall games and updates after the HDD swap

- Backup your Movies, that is all

This will make the swap extremely fast, painless and easy. Both times I did a complete backup and it did not work well. The 320 Gb to 1 Tb froze at 15 hours and I ended up deleting much of the transferred data.

-Just synch your trophies, Like Latikos said, you can't back them up any other way

This is just my opinion if you want to do it quickly and easily.

Edited December 29, 2012 by broy300