BACKUP UNITY PROJECT THE RIGHT WAY - UNITY

Thank you

This question is often asked. I wonder that so few answers suggest rolling your own using Unity. The video shows there is no magic to worry about. If you're new to Unity, maybe new to development tools generally, its a learning project.

p.s. I'm not sure about copying just the folders given in. My tool doesn't copy all files in those folders, and copies some things in other folders. Restoring it (which is just a copy paste) has only one side effect aside from the longer time to open, the Scene isn't opened. So if you see nothing in the hierarchy, don't panic!

uhh, github exists?

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!

Thank you! I can really reduce the file size of the project when backup, and it still works!

Does it load layers and tags?

will the new back up project be updated to the latest version? what if i wanna have a latest version?

i may of just spent 2 hours puting scripts and sounds on objects and turning on triggers and also adding collisions just for unity to crash fuck

can we backup our project with out mobile build game???

it made an auto backup how could i import that into unity/

Happy New Year to you too!

Then when I restore all my material are that horrible purple and there are 100 compiler errors

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing.

For people watching this in June 2022 and ***using the latest UNITY version***:
The folders essential for unity to load without throwing any errors are 3 now:
(1) Assets
(2) Packages
(3) ProjectSettings

disclaimer: I've been testing this out myself and I also checked it and back it up on Unity forums, but if anyone thinks this is wrong in any way, please let me/us know.

Also, and this is optional, for more security you can delete only the library folder: so you may do this safe (and heavier) back up once every 5 or more light back ups.

Nonetheless, great video. Thank you!

its better to copy everything. to save file size you can dont save Library and Temp folder

"If my SSD ded" wise words

Thank you!

how about the usersettings? is it not necessary?

Perfect, thank you

I need to start doing this, I was working on my VRChat world yesterday and me being stupid didn’t add a important component before adding pens so it started throwing up errors and I had to delete scripts till the world worked again so let’s hope I didn’t mess it up too much