How to Create a Backup of Your Minecraft Endstone Edition Server

Regular backups of your Minecraft Endstone Edition server protect you from data loss — whether due to a failed update, a broken plugin or an accidentally overwritten world.

When should you create a backup?

• Before updating the server version
• Before installing or updating plugins
• Before major changes to server.properties
• Before uploading a different world
• 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.

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.

Note

If you only want to save the world itself, you can also download the world folder separately: Download savegame.

Caution

Stop your server before creating or restoring a backup. While running, the server constantly writes to the database of the loaded world — a backup taken during operation can be incomplete.

Note

Besides the worlds folder, your backup should include the configuration and list files in the main folder of your server, in particular server.properties, endstone.toml, permissions.json, allowlist.json, banned-players.json and banned-ips.json as well as the plugins folder.

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.