How to Create a Backup of Your BATTALION Legacy Server

A BATTALION Legacy server does not store a game world. The server name and the admin password are passed to your server as startup parameters — you enter both in the dashboard. Everything else — round times, map lists, bots and scoring — sits in the configuration files of your server. Those are exactly the files a backup preserves.

No world save

BATTALION Legacy is a pure PvP shooter. Only the current round is kept on the server — there is no save game and no player progress you would have to back up or move to another server.

When should you create a backup?

• Before changing the configuration files of your server
• Before reinstalling the server files
• As soon as you have found a configuration you are happy with
• At regular intervals so you always have a safe state to return to

Create a backup

You can find the exact process for creating, managing and restoring a backup in the general guide: Create Backup.

Caution

Stop your server before creating or restoring a backup. A running server keeps writing to its files and may overwrite your changes when it shuts down.

Back up the configuration separately

If you only want to save your server settings, download the configuration folder via SFTP.

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Download the folders
   Download both of the following folders completely to your PC:

   /Battalion/Config/
   /Battalion/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/

4. Start the server
   Start your server again.

Note

The /Battalion/Config/ folder holds the shipped configuration files (DefaultGame_*.ini) with the game settings of your server — for example the map and mode lists, the round times and the number of bots.

The /Battalion/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ folder is only created while the server runs and holds the configuration your server writes itself (among others the Game.ini). If you cannot find it, start your server once.

Important

Your server receives the server name and the admin password from the dashboard as startup parameters. They therefore take precedence over the entries in the configuration files — a backup of those files does not preserve the two values. Note them down separately from the dashboard.

Tip

Lock important backups (e.g. before major changes) so they cannot be overwritten by automatic backups. Also download especially important backups to your PC in case your backup limit is reached.

Info

Automatic backups as well as restarts can be requested free of charge via a support ticket. The "Scheduled Tasks" feature is currently in development and will be released this year.