Set it up, then get it back.
Everything from first run to a clean restore, on one page. The homepage covers how it works and what it keeps; the licensing page covers keys and the free tier in full.
Set it up once, and then stop thinking about it.
Download, install, and what DeckShot does the first time it opens — finding your Elgato apps and taking the first backups.
Choose where backups live: a local disk, an external drive, or a network share. What to weigh when you pick.
The layers DeckShot captures per app, and how to turn the heavier ones — presets, plug-in binaries — on or off.
What it does when you are not watching.
How the schedule works, and why an app update triggers an extra copy the moment your config is rewritten.
What HEALTHY, CHECK, CORRUPT and UNREAD mean, and why DeckShot never shows a tick it hasn't earned.
Give a backup a name you'll recognise a month later, and find it fast in a long history.
The day it is the only thing that matters.
The full restore flow, the pre-restore copy DeckShot always takes first, and what happens if an app rejects the files.
Deactivate on the old machine, point the new one at the same folder, and put every app back where it was.
Where deleted backups go, how to restore one, and how to empty the trash for good.
A restore saves what's live, first.
Restoring never gambles with what you have now — your live config is copied before anything is touched. Here is the flow, and the honest outcomes when an app won't take a file back.
Choose the version you want back from the list. DeckShot shows what restoring it would change before you commit.
Before touching anything, DeckShot copies whatever config is there now — your pre-restore safety copy, taken automatically.
The app closes, the older files are written into place, and DeckShot verifies the write.
The Elgato app reopens on the restored config. If it refuses the files, your pre-restore copy is already on the list.
Three outcomes, and none of them is a guess.
The questions that come up, answered plainly.
Where do I start?+
Download and run DeckShot — it finds the Elgato apps on this PC on its own and takes the first backups within a few seconds. If the default Documents folder isn't where you want them, open Settings and point it at a local disk, an external drive or a network share. That's the whole setup.
DeckShot isn't finding an app+
It looks for each Elgato app where that app normally installs. A moved install — a portable copy, a second install, or a drive that isn't C: — needs pointing at by hand: open Settings, pick the app, and choose its config under “where its config is”. That works for every app, and where more than one install is found DeckShot lists them so you can pick. An app that isn't installed simply reads as not installed, and its existing backups stay put.
A backup says CHECK or CORRUPT+
CHECK means the backup was taken but a section didn't fully validate: still restorable, and you know before you commit. CORRUPT means it was read back and no longer matches what was recorded, so no restore is offered that couldn't work. Open the backup and choose “read it again” to re-check it against disk.
I'm moving to a new PC+
Deactivate the licence on the old PC from Settings → Licence to free the key, then activate it on the new one. Point DeckShot at the same backup folder — a copy moved over, or a shared drive — and every app's history is there to restore from.
I lost my licence key+
The key is tied to the email it was bought with. Look it up in the licence portal, linked from the licensing page, or send a message from that address and it will be resent.
Is restore free?+
For one app, forever — the one you choose. Backups run for every app regardless; restoring any other app needs a licence.
Anything this page misses, a person answers.
Stop rebuilding what you already built.
Set it up on a good day. After the first run it is a filing cabinet nobody thinks about, until the day it is the only thing that matters.