strappazzon / grw-ghost-buster

👻 Backup and restore Ghost Recon Wildlands save games

GHOST Buster

Backup and restore Ghost Recon Wildlands save games

Getting Started

• Download the latest version of GHOST Buster

• Launch GHOST Buster.exe

  • Every time you launch it, the program will check the System Registry to see if Ghost Recon Wildlands and Ubisoft Connect are installed
  • When you close it, a file containing the program's settings will be created (or updated if it already exists) inside %LOCALAPPDATA%\GHOSTbackup

• Click the Browse... button under "Folders -> Wildlands save games folder" to select Wildlands save games folder

  • Refer to the PC Gaming Wiki if you don't know where save games are located

• Click the Browse... button under "Folders -> Backup location" to select where Wildlands save games will be backed up to

  • Each backup will be stored inside a yyyyMMdd HHmm sub-folder

• Specify the backup frequency and click the Start Backup button. To interrupt the process, click Stop Backup

  • You can specify a value between 1 and 180

Restoring a Backup

Warning

Disable cloud synchronization before restoring a backup, otherwise Ubisoft Connect will redownload the old save games rendering the restore process useless. Also note that restoring a backup will OVERWRITE your old save games and it CANNOT BE UNDONE.

From Tasks screen

• Close the game
• Choose which backup you want to restore
  • Latest
  • Second-to-last
    • If it doesn't exist, you'll be prompted to restore the latest backup instead
• Click the Restore Backup button

From Manage Backups screen

• Close the game
• Right click on the backup you want to restore
• Click Restore

Settings

• Interface language

  • Default: English

• Confirm exit when backup is running

  • Enabled by default
  • The program will show a confirmation dialog before quitting if the backup process is running

• Confirm backup interruption

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will show a confirmation dialog before interrupting the backup process

• Display notifications about backups

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will display a toast notification every time a backup is performed

• Disable Ubisoft Connect cloud save synchronization on restore

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will disable Ubisoft Connect cloud save synchronization before restoring a backup
  • Keep in mind that the Ubisoft Connect settings file may change at any time so this setting may not be reliable

• Enable Ubisoft Connect cloud save synchronization on exit

  • Enabled by default
  • Works only if the previous setting is enabled
  • The program will re-enable Ubisoft Connect cloud save synchronization before quitting

• Check for updates on startup

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will connect to GitHub servers to check if the current version is up to date

• Remember window position

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will remember the window position the last time GHOST Buster was used

• I'm not using the Ubisoft Connect version of Wildlands

  • Disabled by default
  • You can specify a different location for the Wildlands executable

• Write events to a log file

  • Disabled by default
  • The program will log all events (such as Errors and Warnings) to a file
  • The default log file location is %LOCALAPPDATA%\GHOSTbackup\event.log

All settings are stored inside %LOCALAPPDATA%\GHOSTbackup\ghostbackup.cfg.

Screenshots

Main screen	Backups	Settings	Notification

Backup restore	Backup deletion	Logs screen	About screen

grw-ghost-buster's Issues

Notification popup displays on fresh installation when should be off by default

Describe the bug

The popup notification displays even though its supposed to be off by default (on a fresh installation). Toggling its settings tick box makes no difference. I went back to this great little util after getting a smart gaming TV. I think the bug must have been there many months ago when I was last using the util as I can remember notifications coming up. However on the new TV the popups makes the game lost focus and this causes all sorts of resolution problems. Previously I must have been running borderless but have to run in fullscreen on the new display.

Reproduction steps

Fresh install. Load game. Popup appears.

Expected behavior

Popup should be off by default.

Platform

• OS: Windows 10 latest.
• GHOST Buster Version: Latest.

Additional information

Thanks for the util !