This guide will help you on how to setup automatic server backups for your game server.
- Go to Schedule Tasks tab in your Control Panel
- Create a new Schedule Task and select the Scheduled Backup option
- Give it a name of your choice, 12 Hours Backup for example
- Select the date/hour you want to next backup will happen(*)
- Select Recur Every 1 Days
- Select Repeat task option
- Select Repeat Every 12 hours
- Select For 24 Hours
- Save the task(**)
(*) You can view the current server hour when you create the task, the hour reporting in the hour field should be the current server hour + 10 minutes margin, base yourself on that hour against your local hour to set up the next hour you want your server to be restarted.
(**) Backup task will stop your server to perform the backup and then start it back automatically.
In this example it will backup your server every 12 hours, if you want any other number of hours, just change the Repeat Every 12 hours for any number of hours of your choice.
The server will be stopped for executing this task, have that in mind when setting up this task, you might also want to use this task to restart your server since it will stop it and start it back after executing the task.
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