Backing Up Your Minecraft World
Regular backups of your Minecraft world are crucial to protect against data loss. Everything below lives in two tabs of the DoomHosting game panel: Backups holds the backups themselves, and Schedules is where you make them run on their own.
Automatic Backups
Automatic backups are set up on the Schedules tab, not on the Backups tab.
- Open Schedules and choose New schedule
- Pick the Nightly backup quick start, or set the action to Create backup and choose your own frequency, day, and time
- Save it, and the panel runs it for you from then on
Scheduled backups count against the same limit as manual ones, so watch the usage line at the top of the Backups tab and delete old backups to make room.
Manual Backup
To take a manual backup:
- Go to the Backups tab in the control panel
- Click Create backup, and give it a name if you want one
- It is created in the background, so you can carry on working
- It appears in the list once it is ready
You do not have to stop the server first. Any finished backup can be pulled to your own machine with Download, or removed with Delete to free a slot. A backup marked Locked cannot be deleted.
Restoring a Backup
To restore a previous world:
- Stop the server, restoring is blocked while it is running
- Open the Backups tab and find the backup you want
- Click Restore
- Leave Wipe current files before restoring (recommended) ticked, then confirm
- Wait for it to finish. The server stays offline until it does, and progress shows in the Console tab
- Start the server again
Restoring replaces your current server files with the contents of the backup, so take a fresh backup first if the current world is worth keeping.
Important Notes
- Take a backup before major changes: version switches, mod installs, and big world edits
- Use Download so you also have a copy outside the panel
- Watch the usage line on the Backups tab, because once the limit is reached no new backups are created
- Test a restore occasionally, on a spare server if you have one, so you know the backup is good
Need help with your backups? Contact our support team for assistance.