How To Properly Backup Unity Engine Project(Not Using Git)?

Hi,

Pushing forward with development...

After making small milestones I backup my Unity Engine project.
Basically I've been just compressing the entire Unity Engine project's folder and upload it to my website.

The problem with the above is that the compressed ZIP of the project's folder is over 500MB ?

Is there a better way to backup the project?
I am not ready to setup Git yet.

Let me know, thanks!

Jesse

 

I'll try that, thank you!

 

Every time you back that up you are making another 500mb file.

Every time you make a commit in git you are only updating the files that changed.

While there may be an initial large "push" to a remote server (such as github, bitbucket, gitlab), all subsequent pushes only contain what changed.

It's pretty magical really. You'll wonder how you ever even considered working without regular commits.

Best part is, git is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up.

As far as configuring Unity to play nice with git, keep this in mind:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/prefab-links-keep-getting-dumped-on-git-pull.646600/#post-7142306

Here's how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/2-steps-backwards.965048/#post-6282497

Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/whe...grammer-example-in-text.1048739/#post-6783740

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/your-techniques-to-share-code-between-projects.575959/#post-3835837

Setting up the right .gitignore file:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/removing-il2cpp_cache-from-project.1084607/#post-6997067

Generally setting Unity up (includes above .gitignore concepts):

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-git-with-unity