Anomaly Save Guardian runs locally on your PC using built-in Windows PowerShell / .NET. It has no network features, no telemetry, and no external dependencies.
By design:
- Your original save files are only ever read and copied — never modified, moved, renamed, or deleted during automatic backup.
- Restore is guided and confirmation-based. It writes only into the configured save folder, creates a pre-restore safety backup before overwriting matching live files, and stops if that safety backup fails.
- Backup files are never modified or deleted during restore. Zip restore points are validated and extracted to a temporary folder first so unsafe paths are blocked before anything is copied into the live save folder.
- The only files the tool ever deletes are old restore points inside their configured backup areas. Rolling replacement/retention deletes only old rolling restore points inside the configured backup folder. Milestone retention deletes only old milestone restore points inside the configured milestone folder. Live savedgames, pre-restore safety backups, config files, logs and unrelated folders are not deleted by retention.
- Your personal config (
stalker-gamma-backup-config.json) stays on your machine and is git-ignored.
The latest release receives fixes. Older versions are not maintained.
| Version | Supported |
|---|---|
| v1.0.0 | Yes |
If you find a security issue (for example, a path-handling bug that could cause the tool to write or delete outside the backup folder):
- Do not open a public issue with exploit details.
- Use GitHub's "Report a vulnerability" (Security → Advisories) on the repository, or contact the maintainer privately.
- Please include: what you observed, steps to reproduce, your Windows / PowerShell version, and the relevant config (with personal paths removed).
You'll get an acknowledgement as soon as possible. Thanks for helping keep fellow stalkers' saves safe.