What is the best way to backup Skyrim saved games? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

Skyrim does use Steam Cloud to back up your saves, however the amount of space provided is hardly enough to store many saves. The best way to preserve your saves is to move the files over to the new PC.

Skyrim puts its saves in the following directory in Windows Vista & Windows 7:

C:\Users\[UserName]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves

Skyrim puts saves in the following directory in Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings[UserName]\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves

These files are not dependent on anything so you can freely share them across computers, delete, copy, backup, or anything else.

From Where are the save files in Skyrim?

You will probably move the entire My Documents directory to the new computer anyway.