I use Ludusavi to create backups of my games on 2 devices - my Linux PC and my Steam Deck. Backups on each device are made to the same folder on my remote mounted SMB share.

On each device, games could be installed on different places. For example:

My PC:

• My primary drive: /home/myuser/and/so/on
• My secondary drive: /mnt/mydrive/and/so/on

Steam Deck:

• My primary drive: /home/deck/and/so/on
• My SD card: /run/media/mysdcard/and/so/on

I'm hoping if I could get an experienced Ludusavi user/dev's opinion on what's the best backup and restore method I could implement, that works? For now, backup works - I'm not sure how Ludusavi juggles between creating full/differential backups when the source for the same game can be from different devices, or if Ludusavi is more intended for 'single (source) device, single backup folder'.

I'm also unsure how the 'restore' process would work - from my testing, if I'm restoring a backup of a game that was installed to the Steam Deck's primary drive, to my PC whereby the game is installed to my secondary drive (or even primary drive, perhaps) - the restore simply wouldn't work due to the difference in the path between the two devices.

I believe redirects were made for situations like this, but as far as I can tell, redirects can only serve simpler 'replacement' situations where if, for example, if all games on my PC were installed on my primary drive, and all games on my Steam Deck were installed on its primary drive, then I could do a replacement for the PC's home directory path with the Steam Deck's, and vice versa - unlike my situation where the games aren't guaranteed to be installed on one drive or the other on each device.

Any pointers would be very much appreciated!