¶ Project Zomboid: Backups and Restores
Use the following guide to restore your backups if you are using indifferent broccoli for your Project Zomboid dedicated server.
By default Zomboid will keep 5 backups that are generated on startup and on version change. Indifferent Broccoli also takes 3 manual backups each day at 06:00 UTC. You can adjust the time at which that daily backup occurs in the backups tab of your server dashboard, as well as, trigger a manual backup and restore any backups that are saved there.
¶ Project Zomboid Backup Settings
Backups are controlled by four settings in the Advanced Server Settings (pzserver.ini)
BackupsCount (Default=5)
- Tells the server how many backups to store. Min: 1 | Max: 300
BackupsOnStart (Default=true)
- If set to true, the server will create a full backup after each restart.
BackupsOnVersionChange (Default=true)
- If set to true, the server will create a full backup on each game update.
BackupsPeriod (Default=0)
- Tells the server to create a backup each set amount of minutes (may cause lag). Min: 0 | Max: 1500
¶ Manually Creating a backup
Indifferent Broccoli holds 3 daily backups on our own backup server.
Creating a manual backup will overwrite the oldest daily backup.
1. Head over to the backups tab in your server dashboard.
2. Click Create Backup
¶ Downloading a Save
1. Head over to the backups tab in your server dashboard.
2. Click Download Save
Note: This is a snapshot of the current status of your server.
¶ Downloading a Previous Backup
¶ Zomboid Backup
1. Open the File Manager.
2. Navigate to /server-data/backups/startup/
3. Note the name of the zip file backup you would like to restore. By default there are five backups created after the last five server restarts.
4. Here you can choose and download a backup.
These Backups include the saves, server, and db folders from server-data which is everything needed to restore a server.
¶ Indifferent Broccoli Daily/Manual Backup
1. Open a ticket via support@indifferentbroccoli.com or in our discord in the create-a-ticket channel and let us know which backup you want.
¶ Restoring a Backup
¶ Zomboid Backups
1. Head over to the backups tab in your server dashboard.
2. Select the zomboid backup from the list that you'd like to restore.
3. Select the restore option under the selected backup.
¶ Indifferent Broccoli Daily/Manual Backup
1. Head over to the backups tab in your server dashboard.
2. Click restore next to the date of the backup that you would like to restore.
