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What folders should be persisted when running Heroic in VM or container?
Hello, I'm running Heroic in a specific setup: a Linux (Ubuntu 24) VM / container which may not be persist. only certain volumes (directories) can be persisted.
I have a base image with Heroic already installed, I only need to persist data created at runtime (like game data). I did not find specific documentation, but so far I observed these paths were used:
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/heroic (eg. /home/ubuntu/.config/heroic)
- $XDG_DATA_HOME entire folder
- $HOME/Games (eg. /home/ubuntu/Games) to install games
- $HOME/.wine (for Wine install, eg. /home/ubuntu/.wine)
I could go ahead and simply persist $HOME directory, but is there a known or documented list of data managed by Heroic and sub-components ?
For context: I'm the creator of Cloudy Pad (https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad), an open source project to deploy Cloud gaming instances or transform servers/machines into Cloud gaming instances. We already support Steam and now trying to add Heroic support.
Thanks in advance !Solution:Jump to solution
pretty much what you described,
you may also want to add
$XDG_DATA_HOME/umu to persist runtimes downloaded by UMU...8 Replies
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deep-jade•2mo ago
pretty much what you described,
you may also want to add
$XDG_DATA_HOME/umu to persist runtimes downloaded by UMUforeign-sapphireOP•2mo ago
thanks, will give it a try !
Forgot to mention I already persist the entire
$XDG_DATA_HOME , edited accordinlydeep-jade•2mo ago
other than that, if you are going to run Linux native games, they can write their save files pretty much anywhere. Even though new games use
$XDG_DATA_HOME older ones like to write to custom directories in $HOMEforeign-sapphireOP•2mo ago
OK so I better persist entire $HOME anyway, planned on that already it's a good occasion
~/.wine isn't used by Heroicforeign-sapphireOP•2mo ago
good to know thanks
Note that you can change both the game install directory & Wineprefix directory within Heroic, so you might have to add some instructions to your setup to tell users not to do that
foreign-sapphireOP•2mo ago
indeed