How to Backup Switch With All Games

What is the best method for backing up my Switch, including my game library? It becomes tiresome to restore my emunand and have to download every game I own again. Is it possible for me to back up stuff to my PC hard drive and then restore everything from there?

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Larissa· Answered on Jan 31, 2024

To back up a Nintendo Switch with all games, you will need backup software, like EaseUS Todo Backup. EaseUS Todo Backup is a robust disk backup and disk cloning utility that can help to save all Switch games saved on an SD card to any destination, including external hard drive, USB, NAS, cloud services, and network locations.

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to clone and save all Switch games to a computer hard drive:

Step 1: Turn off your Switch and unplug the Switch memory SD card out of the Switch box. And then connect the SD card to your Windows computer with an adapter.

Step 2: Launch EaseUS Todo Backup and click "Tools" > "Clone".

Step 3: Choose the SD card as the source disk, and a computer hard drive as the target disk, click "Next".

Step 4: Click "Continue" to confirm the warning that the partition or disk cloning will permanently wipe all data on the selected disk.

Step 5. Click "Proceed" to start the cloning process.

Step 6. Wait for the backup process to complete. This may take some time depending on the size of your game files.

Step 7: Disconnect your Nintendo Switch SD card from the computer once the backup process is complete.

You can use EaseUS Todo Backup to back up your Nintendo Switch with all games to a computer hard drive by following these steps. This backup ensures that you can recover the games in the event of data loss or switching to a new device.

EaseUS Todo Backup is a dependable and easy-to-use backup program that offers comprehensive backup and recovery solutions for all types of data. It provides backup methods such as file backup, system backup, and disk backup. Automatic backup scheduling and incremental backups are also provided by the software, ensuring that your backups are constantly up to date.

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