SaveVault documentation

Welcome to the SaveVault docs. SaveVault automatically detects your installed games, backs up their saves into portable archives, and can protect them in real time while you play — on Windows, Linux (including Steam Deck), and macOS.

Pre-launch

These docs are being built out alongside the site. Content is seeded from the app README and will expand through launch. See the site plan for the full documentation tree.

Start here

• Installation — get SaveVault running on your platform.

What SaveVault does

• Automatic game detection via the PCGamingWiki / Ludusavi database.
• Live Protection — rolling snapshots while you play.
• Scheduled backups with change detection and retention.
• Portable restore across machines and operating systems.
• Cloud backup to your own storage via rclone.
• Integrity verification with BLAKE3 checksums.