Backing up your Arma2 Game directory.

there are a couple of ways to do this.

you can manually just copy and paste the directory

• go to the game directory (default is c:\program files\bohemia interactive\arma 2) copy the Arma2 folder
• create a new directory i like to put it on an external or a diff partion or diff internal drive but if you don't have that option you can just create a directory off the root of C:  (c:\game backups\Arma2)
• just paste the contents from the game directory to the game backups folder of you choice

you can create a simple batch file to do this for your. If you do a lot of modding and freck went changes with add-on I would look at getting a backup of the game files.

1. so first you will need to open notepad (start, run, type notepad)
2. type
3. @echo off
   cls
   xcopy "c:\program files\bohemia interactive\arma 2" "c:\game backups\arma 2" /e/c/h/f/k/y
   echo Arma 2 Game directory has been backed up >> "c:\game backups\arma 2.log"
   echo Arma 2 Game directory has been backed up
   pause
click the drop down select all files *.*
4. go to file save as
5. name the batch file arma2 backup.bat
6. so what this batch file does is copies the game directory like method 1 (manual backup) but does it with just a double click
7. what i have also added in to the batch file is a log file output that will be created every time you run the batch file. it will be stored in the c:\game backups directory

 I would go with this with if you change or add mods or add-ons often.

thats you call though
good luck had have fun