How to Download the Savegame of Your Minecraft PocketMine Edition Server

You can download your server's world to your PC at any time – for example as an additional backup, for archiving or to transfer it to another server.

Caution

Stop your server before downloading the files. While running, the server constantly writes to the world database – otherwise you would download an incomplete or corrupted save.

1. Find the active world
   Open the server.properties file in the main folder of your server. The level-name entry shows the folder name of the currently loaded world:

   level-name=my_world

2. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

3. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP or use the file browser in the dashboard.

4. Open the directory
   In the main folder of your server, navigate to the following folder:

   worlds

5. Download the world folder
   Every world is stored here as its own folder. Download the folder of your world completely – including the db subfolder as well as the files level.dat and levelname.txt.

6. Start the server
   Start your server again.

Important

The db subfolder contains the actual LevelDB database with all chunks. Without it the downloaded save is worthless.

Back up the configuration as well

If you also want to save your server settings, download these additional files and folders from the main folder of your server:

server.properties
pocketmine.yml
ops.txt
white-list.txt
banned-players.txt
banned-ips.txt
plugins
plugin_data
resource_packs

The plugin_data folder holds the configurations of your plugins, and the resource_packs folder contains the packs themselves as well as the resource_packs.yml file.

Restoring the savegame

If you want to transfer the world back to a server later, follow the guide Add savegame.

Regular backups

For automatic or regular backups you can also use the backup function: Create backup.