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20 Aug 20265 min read

Backups: The Habit That Saves Your Game Server

World files are the only copy of hundreds of hours of play. Here is what to back up, how often, and how to restore without making a bad situation worse.

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Back up before the experiment, not after

“Plugin updates, generator changes, and forced chunk resets are the moments corruption actually happens. Take a manual backup immediately before any change, even if the schedule says otherwise. It costs 30 seconds and makes every experiment reversible.”

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