Backups, schedules and wipes

Backups are stored outside the game server host, so they are safe even if a node fails. You find everything on the Backups and Schedules tabs of your server.

Manual and automatic backups#

• Backup slots: how many manual backups you can keep. Create one before every big change, with a name you recognise.
• Automatic backups: choose a backup option (for example daily, keeping the last few) when ordering or later on the Plan & resources tab.
• Lock a backup to protect it from being replaced by newer ones.
• Before plan changes and moves, the system makes an extra backup by itself.

Restore everything or single files#

Restore puts the whole server back to the state of the backup. To get back only a world folder or a config file, open the backup, browse its files and restore just those, either next to the current files or overwriting them.

Schedules#

• Run a schedule daily, on chosen weekdays, monthly (for example the first Thursday) or every few hours, in your time zone.
• Each schedule is a list of steps: console command, wait, backup, restart, start, stop or wipe.
• Ready-made schedules: daily restart, daily restart with warnings to players, backup then restart.
• Run now tries a schedule immediately; the list shows when it runs next and how the last run went.

Wipes (Rust)#

For Rust, a wipe step deletes the map, or the map and blueprints, and can pick a new random seed. Combine it with a backup and warnings, for example monthly on the first Thursday to follow the official force wipe.