Auto Backup Save Game

Automatic backups of your Forza Horizon 2 profile on PC (Azimuth): one each time the game starts, before it loads your save, and another every few minutes while you play. A mod for the FH2 Mod Platform.

Azimuth keeps only the newest two copies (revisions) of your profile, and the game writes a new one every time it saves. If a save goes bad, both copies can be gone within minutes. This mod keeps older ones for you.

Installing
You need Azimuth 1.0.1 or later. Download AutoBackupSaveGame-v1.0.0.zip from Releases and extract it into the folder with azimuth.exe:

DWrite.dll                         the FH2 Mod Platform
fh2-mods\AutoBackupSaveGame.dll    this mod

What it backs up
Your profile: progress, cars, credits, settings. That's the User_9000000000000 folder in data\titles<title>\saves\player-1\ (1A96545B for Forza Horizon 2). Liveries, tunes and photos aren't included.

Backups go to AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups<title><date>_<time>, next to azimuth.exe:

AutoBackupSaveGame\
    AutoBackupSaveGame.ini
    Backups\1A96545B\
        2026-11-08_14-30-05\User_9000000000000\revisions\...
        2026-11-08_14-45-05\User_9000000000000\revisions\...

• Every revision is checked against the game's own record of it (the SHA-256 of each file in its commit file). A revision the game was still writing is tried again a few seconds later. One that never matches is left out (the log says so), so a backup only has revisions the game will load.
• If the save hasn't changed since the last backup, no new one is made.
• The newest 10 backups are kept, and older ones are deleted. Each is about 13 MB.

Settings
Pause > Settings > MODS:

• Auto Backup: On / Off
• Auto Backup: On Game Start: On / Off
• Auto Backup: Every: Off, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes
  Or AutoBackupSaveGame\AutoBackupSaveGame.ini:

[Settings]
Enabled=1
OnStart=1
Interval=15
Keep=10
Folder=

• OnStart: back up when the game starts.
• Interval: minutes between backups while you play (0: none).
• Keep: how many backups to keep.
• Folder: where backups go. Leave it blank for AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups. A relative path is relative to the azimuth.exe folder, or use a full path like D:\FH2 Backups.
  Changes in the ini apply the next time the game starts.

Restoring a backup

1. Close the game.
2. Go to data\titles\1A96545B\saves\player-1. To be safe, first move the User_9000000000000 folder somewhere else rather than deleting it.
3. Copy User_9000000000000 from the backup you want (AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups\1A96545B<date>_<time>) into player-1.
4. Start the game.