Create and restore backups
Protect your world on Victus — create manual or scheduled backups from the Backups tab and restore them when something breaks.
Backups are your safety net against griefing, a bad plugin, a corrupted world or a mistaken version change. Victus servers have a dedicated Backups tab that snapshots your server files. Make one before any risky change (version switch, egg change, reinstall) and keep a regular schedule.
Create a backup
- Open the Backups tab.
- Click Create Backup and give it a clear name (e.g. "before 1.21 update").
- Wait for it to finish — the size depends on your world/files.
- When done you can download it or lock it so it is not auto-deleted.
Each plan allows a limited number of backups. When you hit the limit, new ones fail until you delete an old one — or "lock" the important ones so rotation cannot remove them. For extra safety also download key backups off-site.
Restore a backup
- Stop the server from the Console tab first.
- On the Backups tab, open the backup you want and choose Restore.
- Confirm — restoring OVERWRITES current server files with the backup's contents.
- Start the server and verify the world is as expected.
Restoring replaces your current files with the backup. If the current state has anything you want to keep, make a fresh backup (or download the files) before restoring — otherwise it is gone.
Add a Backup task on the Schedules tab to run nightly so you always have a recent snapshot. See "Schedule automatic restarts" for how the Schedules tab works.