Restoring Server from Backup

[Ralta]

Is there a way to do this? Having looked at /arkse/ShooterGame/Saved/SavedArks, I can see numerous files including one listed as TheIsland_AntiCorruptionBackup.bak. How would I go about restoring to either this backup, or any other previous backup>

I assume I simply need to rename a file to X but can anyone specify this? Thank you.

[Ralta]

Too many files. So confusing.

[Ralta]

Sorry, this forum moves too fast. Bump.

[TunedChaos]

This might help from another thread (this one: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820473977896463/)

Originally posted by Drake:

v172.0 does auto-backups on each save, if a save is corrupted, it'll automatically reload the previous one. The game saves every 20 min, so shouldn't be tooooo bad. That said, we're looking into the corruption issue itself as well.

Apparently this is some automatic back up that gets stored every 20 minutes, if there's a detected corruption upon a reload it should load this .bak file instead then save fresh again.

[Ralta]

Hm, I see. Any ideas on if it's possible to load a previous backup at all?

[TunedChaos]

I would have to know more about the file type. It could be a compressed file (check with 7-zip, that's what I would do). If it is you might be able to figure out how it extracts into the file directory structure. Ultimately I'm not sure how to force a specific load of it. I'd have to do more digging.

[TunedChaos]

So, looking into the file types and whatnot, I THINK it looks like these are actually just copied and renamed ".ark" files.

Completely guessing here (I could be wrong so BACK THINGS UP)
But you MIGHT just be able to rename
TheIsland_AntiCorruptionBackup.bak
to
TheIsland.ark

Let me know how it goes (I'm going to need to know if it works anyway since I've never tried myself!).

[TunedChaos]

Hey I did a little file comparison. The .bak file IS the same as a .ark file.

That being said, my outline above SHOULD be what restores things!

[Ralta]

Nice lone, thanks for your help FlyingMongoose! We'll give it a try on our server at some point :-)

[TunedChaos]

Alright cool, let me know how it goes but remember ALWAYS BACK UP STUFF ANYWAY!

Also... I do play on your guys INS server(s) once in a while ;-) but I'm running my own ARK server.

[Dirty Mike]

So did this work or no? im trying to roll back my server around a hour ago.

[TunedChaos]

It should, I did a detailed file comparison after the 20 minutes they say it makes this .bak file between the .bak and my TheIsland.ark and they were identical. (And yeah it only does 20 minutes).

If you want hourly backups you'll probably have to write your own batch script (look into xcopy, it'll help).

[TunedChaos]

This does work (unfortunately my backup was generated too soon from when I wanted it to generate)

[MickeyMow]

is it possible to change "TheIsland_27.07.2015_09.20.48" to "TheIsland"? cause judging from my anticorruption file timing modified its too close to when the savefile crashed? as for "TheIsland_27.07.2015_09.20.48" is the correct timing before it crashed?

[[IRA] Aurora]

I'm going to bump this with some relevant information.

I created a bash script to autosave the SavedArks folder, tar, and compress it. I recently needed to do a backup. There is a serious glitch though - none of my dinos or buildings appear to be owned by my tribe. The tribe manager wants me to create a new tribe. My tribe mates (which I was able to access by ghosting) seem to be allied green and in the correct tribe. Using this tool ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594821545173979380/ ) shows the game data for my tribe to be set correctly.

Currently trying to do a backup with the anti-corruption file.

[[IRA] Aurora]

That file didn't work as I thought it would. No buildings existed. Trying one of the earlier dated backups.