Backed mine up last night. If GOG crashes and burns, I'm all good! :-D

This, so much. Real men don't act rationally, that's a girly thing.

It is going to be a bother to back up my 1000+ games, but looks like I have to do it now.

This far I have mainly just bought games, never actually even downloaded majority of them.

Removed GOG Galaxy, which broke the desktop icon links to GOG games since those icons would start GOG Galaxy first. But in good news, the game installs didn't break, just need to dig up executables from the install folders and in even better news, the games start much faster now that GOG Galaxy doesn't start first and try to call home (which was especially annoying when my internet was being shaky).

My real game plan in case GOG went belly up suddenly for whatever reason? I'd get my games via torrents, from people with actual backups. I know, I know, a leech, but not all of us need backups realistically, just some of us...

Remember to use RAID 1, Harddrive failure is a problem, especially with those smaller drives and the TB drives (since they often use helium which leaks over time), don't want to lose your backup do you?

Always do, any digital goods I'm afraid to lose get regularly backed up.

Is RAID actually a good way to backup? Isn't it so that if the RAID controller fails, you might use all your data because of it? I myself backup important files on multiple drives that aren't actually connected and stored separately.

I just need to find the space required

It depends on how the RAID is implemented really. But yes, RAID does not replace a backup plan - it's more of a way to ensure you can ride out failures without outages. I also use two separate hard drives and rsync between a main backup and a "shadow" backup.

In these kind of topics, I never know what people are talking about...
To me, a backup means: downloading your files, then duplicating them to a second (or more) device(s). Downloading without duplicating is not a backup since you don't own the GOG servers.

Also, as long as you don't have a local copy of a game, it isn't really DRM-free.

I always keep double copies of anything I don't want to risk losing. (I have a lot of external HDDs)

Yeah... "real RAID-1" is mirroring and nothing else. You should be able to take either harddrive out of the raid array, sitck it into an enclosure and it works just fine. Software (or software on a chip) RAID does whatever the hell it wants to.

The intent isn't to replace backing up, the backup... but HDDs aren't good for cold storage (or so I've read on r/DataHorders) so keeping them spinning and synced is a decent way to prevent dataloss.

That makes sense, thanks.

I have my complete gog game library (around 360 games) on an external HDD, roughly 2.4 TB.

I use gogrepoc for updating my library on a daily basis, which is easy to automate via a batch file. This way I always have the latest updates without having to do anything manually.

Is there any way to know which games won´t be updated anymore? I´m planning to burn some games to M-Discs, but this doesn´t make sense with games that are still being updated.