Backups

How many copies your plan includes, when to take them and how restoring works.

A backup is a snapshot of your entire server — world, configs, plugins, everything. Restoring one puts the server back exactly as it was.

How many you get

Backup slots scale with your plan. The entry-level 2 GB plan has no slots at all; larger plans include progressively more, up to eight on the largest. The exact number for your plan is shown on the plan card when ordering and in the Server backups tab.

This is worth knowing before you rely on it: if you are on the smallest plan, you have no backups unless you add them. Extra slots can be bought as an add-on, as can automatic daily backups.

Manual backups

Open Server backups, name the backup and create it. How long it takes depends on the size of your world — a fresh Minecraft world takes seconds, a year-old modded world with a large map takes minutes.

Take one before anything risky:

• installing or removing mods and plugins
• updating the game version
• editing world data by hand
• letting somebody else onto the server for the first time

Automatic backups

Daily automatic backups are a paid add-on, not part of the base plan. Once enabled, they run on a schedule and rotate within your available slots — the oldest is replaced when the limit is reached.

If you enable them, keep at least one slot free for manual backups, otherwise an automatic one may replace the snapshot you deliberately took before a risky change.

Restoring

Pick a backup and restore it. The server stops, files are replaced, and it starts again.

What a backup is not

It is not a substitute for your own copy. Backups live on our infrastructure. For anything irreplaceable — a build project you have run for years, a community's world — download a copy occasionally and keep it somewhere else. That is true of every host, not just us.

It does not survive service deletion. If a service is cancelled and eventually removed, its backups go with it.

When there are no slots left

The panel will tell you rather than silently replacing something. Delete a backup you no longer need, or add slots as an add-on. Deleting a backup is immediate and cannot be undone.