Set up automatic backups
Have your server back itself up every day or every week, keeping only the newest few so it never fills your disk.
Automatic backups run on your server by itself, even when the panel is closed. Set them once and forget about them.
Turn them on
- Open File backups and find Automatic backups.
- Choose how often: Every day or Every week.
- Pick the Time (and the Day for weekly). This uses the server's clock.
- Choose What to back up: Whole server, Game servers (
C:\HTN) or One folder. - Choose how many to Keep, from the newest 1 to the newest 10.
- Click Save schedule.
The top of the card confirms the schedule, for example Every day at 04:00 · Whole server · keeps the newest 5, and shows when the last one ran.
How "Keep" works
When a new automatic backup is made, the oldest automatic ones beyond your limit are deleted. Backups you make by hand are never deleted by the schedule.
Good to know
- If there isn't enough free space, the backup is skipped rather than filling your disk. The card says so.
- Pick a quiet time. Backups keep your game servers running, but they do use some disk and CPU while they work.
- Automatic backups are saved on the server, like the ones you make by hand. Copy important ones to your own PC (see Back up your server and keep a copy safe).
- To stop them, choose Off and click Save schedule.
- Want to know if a backup fails? Turn on Discord alerts.
