How To Back Up & Restore Your Romestead World

Romestead saves your world automatically while your server is running, but an autosave isn't the same thing as a backup. Romestead is currently in Early Access, and updates can occasionally break save compatibility. This guide covers how the game's built-in saving works, and how to create real backups using your MintServers panel so a bad patch or a mistake never costs you your world.

How Romestead's Built-In Autosave Works

Your world is written to a saved_worlds/ subfolder inside your server's working directory, named after the AutoStartWorldName value in your config.json.

• The server autosaves every 6 minutes while running.
• It keeps one rolling backup of the previous save, and will automatically restore from it if the latest save fails to load.

Getting A Clean Snapshot With quicksave

Before taking a backup, it's best to trigger a save manually rather than catching the world mid-write. If you'd rather not stop the server, run quicksave in your server's Console tab first. This is covered in more detail in our guide to Romestead admin & console commands.

Creating A Manual Backup

This is the fastest way to get a safe restore point, and the one you should always use right before updating your server or making major changes.

1. Run quicksave in the Console tab, or Stop your server entirely for the most consistent state.
2. In your MintServers panel, navigate to the Backups tab on the left sidebar.
3. Click the blue Create Backup button.
4. Give the backup a descriptive name, for example "Pre-Update-Backup" or a date, then click Start backup.
5. Wait for the process to finish. It will appear in your list of available backups once complete.

Automating Backups With A Schedule

Given how frequently Romestead is patched during Early Access, it's worth having backups run on their own instead of relying on remembering to make one.

1. In your panel, click Schedules on the left sidebar.
2. Click Create schedule, and give it a name like "Romestead Backups".
3. Set your desired frequency using cron syntax, for example 0 */6 * * * for every 6 hours, or 0 3 * * * for once daily at 3 AM. Schedules run on GMT+0, so adjust for your own timezone.
4. Click Create schedule to save it, then open it and click the blue New Task button.
5. In the Action dropdown, select Create Backup, then click Create task.

Restoring A Backup

1. Stop your server.
2. Go to the Backups tab.
3. Find the backup you want to restore, click the ⋯ button next to it, and click Restore.
4. Confirm the prompt warning you that this will replace your current files.

Between Romestead's built-in autosave and a regular backup schedule on your panel, you're covered against both everyday corruption and a rough patch day. If you ever need a hand restoring a specific backup or recovering a world, no worries! Just open a support ticket and our team will gladly help you get it sorted.