ludusavi VS cargo-binstall

The tool that people often recommend is Ludusavi. I don't know how they play with VN's very random location of saves, though, and even then I mostly use it on Linux where it's easy (if fairly space inefficient) to backup an entire wineprefix/steamcompat folder.

you can try to use this https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi

Ludusavi https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi — this looks like a very neat program but it’s designed for native PC games, not emulation, and I’m not sure how well it would work. Anyone use it for emulators?

ludusavi would be something to look into. It can backup saves, which is what you're after. Most of the time it gets the full save location correct, but make sure. As you don't want to waste time "backing up" to realize it only found the games settings.

i know this comes late, but for anyone who hasn't yet heard of it, there's ludusavi

I don't have any definite plans right now, but I would be interested in exploring it. I just opened a ticket to track the idea: https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi/issues/211

Homepage and documentation

Unfortunately not really usable in production (for me) until https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1 is fixed :( Really much looking forward to it though, as I think it's a great addition to the Rust ecosystem!

Oh looks like cargo-binstall is currently broken (https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1094)

Unfortunately, I ended up running into an issue with the zip support, but I'll come back to it once this is fixed: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1080

I've encountered a strange lifetime error when developing new features in cargo-binstall:

Once you feel like releasing it, could you please add binstall support?

I think in a similar vein there is cargo-binstall that is a cargo install alternative that attempts to use pre-built binary artifacts when possible

I hope ld64 and lld add supports for plugin-opt I'm trying to enable cross-lang-lto on MacOS but failed due to -plugin-opt not supported.

You can use cargo-binstall --install-path to install binaries to custom locations.

If you happen to install a lot of things with cargo, check out cargo-binstall: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall

It'll fetch the binary release from the repo so you don't have to compile it yourself.

I'd recommend to use cargo-binstall, which can download pre-built artifacts from github release.