Archive methods

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Ok, I tied to use the search engine first, as I'm quite sure this has been asked, but I could find no information by using that method.

It seems you can Archive / Backup using either Stardock, or Impulse...does it matter which is used, and is one preferable over the other?  Is using either method interchangeable with the other, and if using to restore at some point there is really no difference? It's either that, or if I use one of the programs to archive...then that same program is needed to be used to restore? Which is true here?

Hopefully this will be last  "new guy" question I need to ask for awhile.

Sincerely,

Fal
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Those are some good questions. I'm reasonably certain on most issues that the answers are good - you can use either one to archive effectively, and when restoring from the archive, the game will restore completely. I'm not sure if you can use Impulse to restore a SDC archive or SDC to restore an Impulse archive, though.

That said, both SDC and Impulse are fairly lightweight. I tend to make ISO's of my archive disks that include the extractor as well as what they have archived. Disk space is practically valueless to me, since I don't keep a collection of music or video files. Hard to fill up a modern HDD without either or both of those.