Creating a backup

Manual backup

1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server.
2. Open the Backups tab and select Create backup.
3. Fill in the dialog. Every field is optional:
   • Name: up to 191 characters, for example "Before plugin update". If you leave it empty, a name is chosen for you.
   • Files to leave out: files and folders to skip, one path or pattern per line, up to 50 lines. For example, logs/ skips the logs folder and *.tmp skips every file ending in .tmp. Paths can't contain ...
   • Protect this backup from deletion: tick this to protect the backup straight away.
4. Select Create backup.

The backup appears at the top of the list with the In progress tag. When it's finished, the tag goes away and the row shows the backup's size. The server can keep running while the backup is made.

tip

Some games keep recent changes in memory and save them every few minutes. To make sure the backup has the latest world, save the world first (on Minecraft, for example, run save-all in the console) or stop the server before you back up.

If Create backup is greyed out, you've reached your plan's backup limit. Delete a backup you no longer need first. See Backup limits.

Scheduled backup

To back up on a timer, either:

• turn on Scheduled backups on the Backups tab for a daily backup (see Scheduled backups), or
• add a Backup task to a schedule for any other timing (see Creating a schedule).

Scheduled backups show the Automatic tag. When you're at your plan's limit, a scheduled backup replaces the oldest backup that isn't protected.