# Transfer between operating systems
Although Ludusavi itself runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac,
it does not automatically support backing up on one OS and restoring on another.

This is a complex problem to solve because
games do not necessarily store data in the same way on each OS.
Ludusavi only knows where each game stores its data on a given OS,
but does not know which save locations correspond to each other,
or even if any of them do correspond.
Some games store data in completely different and incompatible ways on different OSes.

In simple cases, you may be able to configure [redirects](/docs/help/redirects.md)
to translate between specific Windows and Linux paths,
but this would generally require multiple redirects tailored to each game.
In more complex cases, this is not practical or feasible.

A subset of cross-OS transfer is under consideration for Windows and Wine prefixes,
but there is no timeline for this.
You can follow this ticket for any future updates:
https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi/issues/194