ΒΆ Project Zomboid: How to Restore a Backup
Info: How Backups are Made:
Backups are controlled by four settings in the Advanced Server Settings (Server.ini)
1. BackupsCount (Default=5) - Tells the server how many backups to store. Min: 1 | Max: 300
2. BackupsOnStart (Default=true) - If set to true, the server will create a full backup after each restart.
3. BackupsOnVersionChange (Default=true) - If set to true, the server will create a full backup on each game update.
4. BackupsPeriod (Default=0) - Tells the server to create a backup each set amount of minutes. Min: 0 | Max: 1500
Step 1: Downloading your Backup:
1. Open the File Manager
2. Navigate to /server-data/backups/startup/
3. Look at the date column and determine which backup you want to restore. Right click the file and click Download.
4. Once downloaded, use a program such as WinRar or 7Zip to extract it twice from the .tar.gz and .zip
5. Once completed extracting, you should end up with a folder called backup_x, with x being the numbered backup you downloaded.
6. Inside you'll see backups of your configs in /Server/ and your save in /Saves/Multiplayer/
7. To restore your save, simply zip the pzserver folder in /Saves/Multiplayer/. You can also restore your config files from the /Server/ folder if you wish.
8. Drag this pzserver.zip onto the server under /server-data/Saves/Multiplayer/ and delete or backup the old pzserver folder. You can delete the old zip archive after extracting it as well.
9. Restart your server and your backup will be restored.
