How do you backup your ps3 games

Craig Simms. March 18, p. The PlayStation 3 offers three different ways to backup your games. Backing up to the cloud You must be a PlayStation Plus member to use this feature. Firstly, sign in to your PSN account. Perform a complete backup Unlike the Xbox , you're able to backup and restore most of your PlayStation 3 hard drive. Your trophies won't be backed up Trophies aren't included in your backup — they're tied to your PSN account, and generally saved online.

Discuss: How to back-up PlayStation 3 save games. Perhaps you want to backup PS3 games, or just your normal data so you can replace your hard drive. No matter what your reason is, a PS3 backup can be done fairly easily if you know what you are doing.

Before you start, there is one big choice you have to make about what device to use when doing a PS3 backup for your data. You have two options: use an external hard drive or a flash drive.

If you do decide to go this route, the external hard drive will need to be formatted to the Fat32 file system. If you cannot spare an external hard drive to be formatted with FAT32, then you can backup PS3 hard drive to your computer hard drive with free backup software. Be aware that removing your PS3 hard drive might void the PS3 warranty. In order to be able to restore the disk backup to another hard drive flawlessly, you can use a free backup and restore program AOMEI Backupper Standard.

Secure Download. After you prepare a removable drive formatted with FAT32, then you can connect it to your PS3 to get started: 1.