SD Savedata Backups: Difference between revisions

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* '''<Application TitleID>''' - This directory contains a verbatim backup of files in the title's "data" directory(where the save file is located).
* '''<Application TitleID>''' - This directory contains a verbatim backup of files in the title's "data" directory(where the save file is located).


There can only be one savedata per slot, and details about the slots are stored in [[Extdata|System Settings's Extdata]] and hence cannot manually be created. For recovery reasons, if the [[Extdata|System Settings's Extdata]] is damaged, details about the backup slots will be recreated from the files in the backup directory.
There can only be one savedata per slot, and details about the slots are recorded in [[System Settings#ExtData|Backup.dat]] and hence cannot manually be created. For recovery reasons, if [[System Settings#ExtData|Backup.dat]] is damaged, details about the backup slots will be recreated from the files in the backup directory.


== Restrictions ==
== Restrictions ==