Backups are a good way to protect your Game Server from mischief and mistakes. In this guide we will show you how to automate backups so that you always have a fallback in case yucky stuff hits the fan.
Preparing your Server for Backups
You will first need to make sure backups are enabled for your server.
- Go to your myABR Dashboard
- Select your game server
- Go to Upgrade/Downgrade Options on the sidebar
- Change Enable Backups to Yes (some servers might not have this option as backups might be disabled or on by default, you can check this by viewing the backups tab on GS Panel)
Scheduling Backups
- Select your server on the GS Panel
- On the sidebar select Schedule
- Give the schedule a fun name like Daily Backup
- Set the Cron (If you want to do a daily backup at midnight then you would set cron to 0 0 * * *)
- Configure the schedule action to backup
- Consider adding stop and start functionality before and after the backup to prepare the server
- Enable the schedule
Cron Cheatsheet
We understand that Cron jobs might be new to people. Cron uses 5 numbers for task scheduling using server time. Below is a helpful guide to timings.
* * * * * command to be executed– – – – –| | | | || | | | +—– day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0)| | | +——- month (1 – 12)| | +——— day of month (1 – 31)| +———– hour (0 – 23)+————- min (0 – 59)
With this expert information at hand you should be able to setup automated backups for your Game Server.
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