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Hoard
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Overview
Hoard backs up and syncs your game saves. It watches the save folders on your gaming PCs, keeps every version so you can go back to yesterday's run, and puts the newest one on whichever PC you sit down at next. With this container the saves stay on your NAS.
This is the server half. The machines you play on need the Hoard desktop app (Windows, Linux, macOS, Steam Deck) or the CLI: hoard.services/download
Setup:
- Type an admin username and password below, then press Apply.
- Open the container log. The device token for your first PC is printed there, once.
- In the desktop app choose "Self-Host", enter http://TOWER-IP:12421 and paste the token.
- WebUI opens the web panel. Log in with the same username and password to see your saves, devices and users.
To add another PC later, open this container's Console and run:
hoard-admin token create YOUR-USER --device "living-room PC"
Everything is stored in the two appdata folders below. Back up data/ and you have your saves. Free and open source (AGPL-3.0), with no account and no telemetry when self-hosted.
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Steam Cloud is not a backup strategy. Hoard is.
Hoard is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) game save backup and sync system. Run the server on your own hardware, or use Hoard Cloud hosted in the EU — the desktop app and the CLI work the same against either. Self-hosting needs no Hoard account and has no quota beyond your own disk.
Ships in eight languages, Spanish included.
Steam Cloud, GOG Galaxy and friends work fine — right up until they overwrite a 200-hour save with a corrupted one from another machine, the publisher kills the service, or the game just isn't covered. Hoard is the boring, paranoid alternative: it snapshots your saves every time you stop playing, hashes every file, and lets you roll back to any earlier version or pull your entire library onto a fresh machine. Nothing is ever silently overwritten — that's the entire point.
Auto-detects your games. Watches your saves. Syncs in the background. Rolls back when things go wrong. That's it. That's Hoard.
Necessity is the mother of invention — I created Hoard because I needed it.
| Feature | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Versioned | Every session = new snapshot. Roll back to any previous version. Old saves never expire (self-hosted) or until you hit your quota (Cloud). |
| Verified | Every file SHA256-hashed on upload, re-verified on restore. Corruption caught before it overwrites your good save. |
| Compact | Content-hash deduplication: 10 versions of a 2 GB save cost ~2 GB, not 20 GB. Transfers are zstd-compressed; restores byte-for-byte (SHA-256 verified). Since 1.1.3 the same dedup applies on upload: a second backup of the same game moves only the files that changed — megabytes, not the whole folder. |
| Auto-detect | 20,000+ games from the Ludusavi manifest + your Steam libraries + running processes + filesystem scan. Zero config for normal games. |
| Emulator support (beta) | PCSX2, RPCS3, DuckStation, PPSSPP, Dolphin, Cemu, Ryujinx, yuzu, Citra/Azahar, RetroArch, mGBA, melonDS, Project64, shadPS4, Vita3K, Eden, Suyu, Citron, Sudachi, xemu and Flycast. Pick from presets, tracked like any other gam -- you can manually add others. |
| Cross-platform | Windows · Linux · macOS. One click install, no compiler, no dependencies -- Steam Deck compatible |
| In-app updates | New release? The app downloads the right installer for your OS and installs it with one click (signed, verified). Self-hosted servers upgrade in place with hoard-server upgrade. |
| Presence | See which of your machines are online right now and what each one is playing, live — the Eye panel, self-hosted included. |
| Self-hosted storage | The server keeps your blobs on local disk or any S3-compatible bucket — MinIO, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, or an rclone serve s3 bridge in front of OneDrive/Drive/Dropbox. |
Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Also includes a headless CLI — the sync engine (hoardd) runs as a background
service and the terminal (hoard) talks to it. Perfect for servers and Steam
Decks. No desktop required, just set it and forget it.
Cloud, self-hosted, or both
One codebase, two ways to run it:
- Hoard Cloud — the hosted service at hoard.services. Sign in with Google, install the app, done. Free tier: 2 GB, 3 devices, full version history — free forever.
- Self-hosted — run the same
hoard-serverbinary on your own box and point the app at it. No account, no quota — just your cloud. On a NAS it is two boxes to fill in: the Unraid template, or the Docker image —docker pull ghcr.io/rleeon/hoard(amd64 and arm64, published on every release). Self-hosting guide for the rest.
Pro (from 1.99 €/month) gives you 100 GB — I don't profit from it. It unlocks Hoard Screen, an in-game overlay to browse and roll back snapshots without alt-tabbing. Free includes a 1-week trial.
Hoard Wrapped is completely free — just a Spotify-Wrapped-style recap of your year in games.
Pricing and free trial at hoard.services/pricing.
What devices does Hoard work on?
Works in any plataform -- except phone, you can install in: hoard.services/download
If you are in gamemode in steamos/brazzite/cachyos the same installer puts the app, the engine and the terminal in one pass — Hoard-CLI is just the terminal face.
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One installer, whatever your machine is
Hoard is an engine (hoardd) plus two faces: the terminal (hoard) and the
app. The installer works out which ones your machine wants and puts them all in
at the same version — a NAS or a server stops at the engine and the terminal, a
desktop or a Steam Deck gets the app too, in the same pass. Upgrades move
everything together, so the pieces can't drift apart.
In game mode there is nothing to keep open: the engine runs as a background service that starts with your session, so your saves sync with no window and no terminal.
Prefer the terminal, or running on a headless box (NAS / server / Steam Deck)?
Add --headless and it never fetches the app. Everything ships as standalone
binaries with no GUI deps.
Download it in cli latest release:
Or just install it using:
Linux:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rleeon/hoard/main/web/static/install.sh | sh
Windows:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rleeon/hoard/main/web/static/install.ps1 | iex
Documentation
- Self-hosting guide — Docker, Unraid, bare-metal + systemd, and the headless CLI.
- Contributing — building from source, the release flow, and the architecture.
- Funding — where the money goes and what your sponsorship covers.
❤️ Support Hoard ❤️
Hoard is free and open-source. Your support helps cover server costs and funds development.
Install Hoard on Unraid in a few clicks.
Find Hoard in Community Apps on your Unraid server, review the template, and click Install. Unraid handles the Docker app or plugin setup from the published template.
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ghcr.io/rleeon/hoard:latestRuntime arguments
- Web UI
http://[IP]:[PORT:12421]/panel- Network
bridge- Shell
sh- Privileged
- false
Template configuration
The port the server listens on. Both the desktop app and the web panel use it.
- Target
- 12421
- Default
- 12421
- Value
- 12421
Everything the server stores: the database and every version of every save. This is the folder to back up.
- Target
- /var/lib/hoard
- Default
- /mnt/user/appdata/hoard/data
- Value
- /mnt/user/appdata/hoard/data
Holds config.toml. Leave it empty and the container writes a working one on first start. Edit it afterwards to change limits or use S3-compatible storage.
- Target
- /etc/hoard
- Default
- /mnt/user/appdata/hoard/config
- Value
- /mnt/user/appdata/hoard/config
Creates this admin account the first time the container starts on an empty database. Ignored after that, so it is safe to leave filled in.
- Target
- HOARD_ADMIN_USERNAME
Password for the account above, at least 8 characters. It is what you type into the web panel, and you can change it there later.
- Target
- HOARD_ADMIN_PASSWORD
Label for the device token printed in the log on first start. Name it after the PC you are going to use it on.
- Target
- HOARD_ADMIN_DEVICE
- Default
- unraid
- Value
- unraid
The user the server runs as. 99 (nobody) matches the rest of appdata.
- Default
- 99
- Value
- 99
The group the server runs as. 100 (users) matches the rest of appdata.
- Default
- 100
- Value
- 100
error, warn, info, debug or trace.
- Target
- HOARD__LOGGING__LEVEL
- Default
- info
- Value
- info
pretty reads well in this log window. Use json if you ship the logs somewhere that parses them.
- Target
- HOARD__LOGGING__FORMAT
- Default
- pretty
- Value
- pretty