how to load backups?

[-=ZXP=-CrispyFries]

So i found my coop servers backups. How do i actually load them?

[Beard]

They are located in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid"
You can load them by extracting the files in the backups and replacing the ones found in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer\servertest", which is where your server save folder is located.

[Dawyl]

so I go in the back up folder then start up and extracted my backup_4 folder into the servertest folder. Then when I load into the game nothing changes?

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Beard:

They are located in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid"
You can load them by extracting the files in the backups and replacing the ones found in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer\servertest", which is where your server save folder is located.

For servers I've renamed, I notice there's also a ServerName_Player folder. What's that about?

[Beard]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Originally posted by Beard:

They are located in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid"
You can load them by extracting the files in the backups and replacing the ones found in "C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid\Saves\Multiplayer\servertest", which is where your server save folder is located.

For servers I've renamed, I notice there's also a ServerName_Player folder. What's that about?

That is just for your local character joining your coop server. It can pretty much be ignored since saves are server-sided right now. But the client still needs to load the map files locally, which is why that folder exists.

[Beard]

Originally posted by Dawyl:

so I go in the back up folder then start up and extracted my backup_4 folder into the servertest folder. Then when I load into the game nothing changes?

Not quite, you would need to extract the contents in the Saves folder to the servertest folder.

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Beard:

Originally posted by Dawyl:

so I go in the back up folder then start up and extracted my backup_4 folder into the servertest folder. Then when I load into the game nothing changes?

Not quite, you would need to extract the contents in the Saves folder to the servertest folder.

I can't seem to get this to work. I've accidentally hit the "reset world" button in the Host menu. Is this backup functional for this scenario?

[Beard]

It should be depending on how you had the backups set up, do you have the "Saves" folder in the backup?

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by Beard:

It should be depending on how you had the backups set up, do you have the "Saves" folder in the backup?

Nope. I haven't done anything specific to setup backups, so I've got whatever the default setting it. The zipped backup file has a couple folders (db, Lua, Mods, server) and a readme which indicates: "World version in this backup is:World isn't exist".

[Beard]

In that case it seems like the backup did not complete successfully, so I cannot really help with that unfortunately.

[Hibemaby]

By "extracting" the current server files, is it fine to delete them then replace it with the contents of the backup? I'm new to this and I'm scared I just killed my friend's progress...

[myBallsitch]

Originally posted by Hibemaby:

By "extracting" the current server files, is it fine to delete them then replace it with the contents of the backup? I'm new to this and I'm scared I just killed my friend's progress...

im wondeering the same thing as you do i delete them or what? ive started to delete the contents but there is just so many it takes ages and i feel this is incorrect. do you know now what to do or not?

[Jon Buzel]

Originally posted by myBallsitch:

Originally posted by Hibemaby:

By "extracting" the current server files, is it fine to delete them then replace it with the contents of the backup? I'm new to this and I'm scared I just killed my friend's progress...

im wondeering the same thing as you do i delete them or what? ive started to delete the contents but there is just so many it takes ages and i feel this is incorrect. do you know now what to do or not?

I join the question, in order to recover from the backup, you need to do rm -rf of the current Saves, or is it enough to replace them from the backup via rsync