Borderlands 4 How to Back Up Saves – Full Guide

As one of our favorite first-person shooters of 2025, Borderlands 4 gets an awful lot of playtime from the team here at 2Game. Thing is, the game is still kind of broken in some respects, and this sadly includes save game corruption that can permanently destroy dozens of hours of gameplay. Thankfully, you can back up your Borderlands 4 saves on PC, and we'll show you how, step-by-step!

With this short, to-the-point guide you'll no longer have to ever worry about permanently losing Borderlands 4 character data, trophies/achievements, or any of your hard-earned Legendaries. Just imagine losing a Phosphene to crummy data corruption! No, we're having none of that here at 2Game.

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How to back up character saves in Borderlands 4?

Straight to the point, here's how to back up all your Borderlands 4 character saves on PC:

This creates a snapshot backup of all the progress you had made up until that point in time. The numbered files are basically your characters, while 'profile.sav' is all of your bank items and shared progression. You need and want all of these files backed up.

If you only have one character you're playing, your 'Client' folder should have only two files in it:

Which correspond to the file functionality we outlined above. But wait, it gets better!

Borderlands 4 save backup mods

An alternative method to manually backing up Borderlands 4 save games is to rely on a third-party mod, like SerahCornelia's Automatic Savegame Backup Borderlands 4. Yep, that's the title of it. This fancy little tool simply makes an automatic Borderlands 4 save backup whenever you launch the game, making absolutely, positively sure that you're never wasting progress, regardless of whether you've recently made a manual backup or not. Handy stuff!

How to fix corrupted saves in Borderlands 4?

Even though save corruption seems strangely common in the Borderlands 4 community, we've got good news: you may be able to save your character and never have to deal with the issue again! If you do come across the dreaded "save corrupted" error, which is much more ominous than the more bog-standard Borderlands 4 incompatible version error, then head back to the save game location folder on your PC to see if you can't fix your files!

This can fix your save game for good, and users have reported resolving their save corruption problems quite easily with a simple rename. Sounds strange, yes, but we're absolutely thrilled that it usually seems as easy as this. Don't delete seemingly corrupted save files, folks! This fix costs you nothing, and may be the solution you need.

Why is Borderlands 4 corrupting save games?

Frankly, we've got no idea why Borderlands 4 save corruption is a problem in the first place, but we don't like it. Borderlands 4's entire loot economy hinges on the (lack of) availability of certain items, and losing them permanently just because the game goes haywire is a non-starter.

So far, we've thankfully only come across surface-level corruption that can be fixed using the technique we outlined above. In theory, this means it shouldn't be a huge problem for Gearbox to resolve, but who knows what sort of spaghetti code might be causing it all.

Whatever the case may be, make sure that you back up your save games often the way we've shown you, and if something does go amiss and your character gets corrupted, see if you can't fix the file with our solution. Good luck!

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Borderlands 4 makes manual save backups mandatory. Here’s how to get them done.