Backups

How to make a backup of your Minecraft server!

What Makes Us Different?

Ember Host uses custom software for our backups to give us advantages over the default backup system (that comes with Pterodactyl): de-duplicated and incremental backups. Unlike other hosts like Shockbyte or Apex, this means that each individual backup taken will only include changes since the last backup — hugely decreasing the amount of time backups take after the first one is created. In other words, our backups are faster and saves storage!

Creating a Backup

Here's how to make a backup - start by heading over to the backups tab on our panel, and click Create Backup.

Selecting files to include here will override the existing .pteroignore

Creating Scheduled Backups

Schduled backups are simple - you can use our inbuilt schedules feature in our panel, which allows for automated backup creation at whatever times you specify. When you reach the backup limit, the oldest non-locked backup will be deleted to make space for the new one the schedule creates. Curious on how to create a schedule? Check out our page on schedules!

Choosing Which Files Are Included in a Scheduled Backup

Go into the files tab of the panel. Then, click 'New File' -> type up your ignore patterns -> save it as .pteroignore

backups/
bluemap/web/maps/**/tiles/**
dynmap/web/tiles/**
crash-reports/
logs/

The .pteroignore file uses the same pattern format as .gitignore. Each line is a pattern for files or directories to exclude from backups. Patterns are relative to the root of your server directory.

backups/ ignores the entire backups directory and all its contents.

bluemap/web/maps/**/tiles/** ignores all tiles directories nested within the bluemap directory, including their contents.

dynmap/web/tiles/** ignores all content within the dynmap web tiles directory.

crash-reports/ and logs/ ignore those directories and their contents.

To negate (include) a previously excluded pattern, prefix it with !.

Further Examples

To exclude a specific directory: path/to/directory/

To exclude all .log files: *.log

To exclude a file: filename.txt

To negate (include) a previously excluded pattern: !important-file.txt

To exclude everything except a specific directory:

*
!important-directory/
!important-directory/**

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