Guides

How to Back Up and Restore Your Minecraft Server

Backups are snapshots of your server that you can restore from the panel. They are included on Village and Kingdom. On Campfire you can still download the world yourself.

Create a backup

  1. Open your world and go to Backups.
  2. Click Create backup.
  3. A backup can take a few minutes. It shows in the list when done.

Restore a backup

  1. On Backups, find the snapshot you want.
  2. Click Restore and confirm. The current world files are replaced with that snapshot.
  3. A restore can take a few minutes.

When to make one

Before you change the Minecraft version, switch software, install a modpack, or reset the world. If something goes wrong, you restore and try again.

A copy on your own computer

Worlds → Download saves the whole world as one file on any plan. See Download your world.

Backups are included on Village and Kingdom. Compare plans on the plans page.