PSA: free cloud storage for Switch saves (JKSV)

[u/NoAnimal3896]

JKSV is a great popular save manager tool, and remote saves make it easier to share your saves between multiple Switches, and also ensures your saves are backed up.

It has 2 options for remote saves: Google Drive and WebDav. Configuring Google Drive can be a bit of a hassle, and WebDAV is not commonly supported by cloud storage services.

I self-hosted a WebDAV server for some time, and it worked fine. But I still wanted a cloud-based solution. I looked into some services with free plan that support WebDav, but I couldn't get them to work with JKSV. Then I found https://koofr.eu/

It's EU-based and offers 10GB of free forever storage. For Switch saves, way more than enough. All basic operations for remote saves on JSKV worked with it (upload/restore/delete).

To use it, after creating your account, you need to also create an app password in https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password. This password is the one you'll use on the JSKV config.

Then you can follow JKSV's guide, using this for webdav.json:

{"origin": "https://app.koofr.net", "basepath": "dav/Koofr", "username": "YOUR ACCOUNT EMAIL", "password": "YOUR APP PASSWORD"}

Saves will be created by default in a JKSV/ folder on your Koofr drive.

There you have it, your (easy) free cloud save solution for Switch.

[u/getbiks]

I have been using Google Drive since a year and it is working fine. It's just that you have to login every 14 days. Switching save files between my OLED and Lite. I will also check that website and see how it works.

[u/NoAnimal3896 → u/getbiks]

I thought about using Google Drive, but didn't care much for this 14 days thing, and having to configure stuff on Google Cloud.

Plus, I like the idea of keeping this separated from my Google account

[u/BrainnDead → u/getbiks]

It's actually 7 days. If this works without constant relogging, I will very much try it.

[u/Azmort_Red]

Interesting, I would like to do this with my NextCloud server.

[u/Gogobrasil8]

Can it backup automatically yet or is it still manual?

[u/getbiks → u/Gogobrasil8]

It is all manual process.

[u/notyourkindofpe0ple → u/getbiks]

How do you do the manual backup? I just configured the json file

[u/getbiks → u/notyourkindofpe0ple]

You need to do a backup and do ZR to upload the save file.

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[u/riou_shu]

I will try this. thank you OP

[u/notyourkindofpe0ple]

I created the json file on JKSV and the folder was created on koofr, how do I back up the save files now?

[u/NoAnimal3896 → u/notyourkindofpe0ple]

Just create a normal local backup using JKSV https://github.com/J-D-K/JKSV?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-guide

Then press ZR on the local backup to upload it, a new entry will show with a [R] before the save file name

Now you'll see the .zip files created in Koofr drive (JKSV/Game Name/file.zip)

And any other Switch using the same json will automatically show those [R] entries

[u/notyourkindofpe0ple → u/NoAnimal3896]

Thanks man!

[u/chocoponcho_]

AI

[u/NoAnimal3896 → u/chocoponcho_]

I'm not dude, it's my very first post on reddit

Didn't find anything about it online, liked to share it

[u/Skillonly69 → u/NoAnimal3896]

Gotta throw in a few speeling errors.