A Guide to Creating Backups
Backing up your server is a crucial task when you’re a server owner. If anything bad happens to your server, such as griefing and/or unintentional actions, you’ll be able to revert those changes. In this article, we’ll give you a quick and easy explanation of how to create backups for your server within the Game Panel.
- Log in to the Game Panel, then choose a server.
- Navigate to the “Backups” tab.
- Click on “Create backup”.
- Insert a name into the “Backup name” field.
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If needed, you can exclude any files or folders by inserting their names into the “Ignored files & directories” field. You can also use wildcards. Please refer to the table below:
Wildcard Function Example * Replaces any number of characters • *.jar
excludes all .jar files• /home/container/plugins/*
excludes all folders/files in the “plugins” directory• *ava
excludes all fles/folders that ends with “ava”? Replaces a single character F ?
ile = Fo
le / Fi
le / Fa
le / Fe
le / Fu
le[] Specifies a set of characters to match, -
specifies a range of consecutive characters• [Jj]
ava =J
ava /j
ava• folder [1-3]
= folder1 / folder2 / folder3If you wish to exclude multiple files or folders, you must type them on separate lines.
- You can choose to lock the backup. Locking it will prevent the backup from being unintentionally deleted by a user. You can always unlock it later.
- Click on “Start Backup”.
You can also delete, restore, and download the backup to your device by clicking the 3 dots to the right of the backup!