Game servers

Backups and schedules

A backup is a copy of every file in your server. A schedule runs a restart or a backup for you at a set time. Your server comes with a daily backup already scheduled.

Backups #

Your plan says how many backups your server may keep: it is shown at the top of the Backups tab.

• Back up now copies the whole server folder as it is now: server.cfg, resources and txAdmin data.
• A backup takes none of your server's storage, and is kept through a Reinstall.
• When all your plan's backups are used, delete one before making another.

The daily backup #

Every new server gets a schedule that makes a backup every day at 09:00 UTC. It is on the Schedules tab, where you can change its time, turn it off or delete it.

Once you have as many backups as your plan allows, the daily backup replaces the oldest one, including one you made yourself. To keep what is in a backup you made by hand, download the files you need before then.

Restoring #

Restoring a backup replaces every file in the server with the files in the backup. It can only be done while the server is stopped: stop it, restore, then start it.

Downloading a backup to your computer is not available yet. To keep a copy outside the Portal, download your files over SFTP.

Schedules #

Up to ten per server, each a restart or a backup, at a time of day, every day or on the days of the week you choose. The server runs them even when you are not signed in.

Times are shown in your own time zone and kept in UTC, so a schedule shifts by an hour when your clocks change.

A schedule can be turned off without deleting it.