A regular backup protects you from accidental data loss — a failed update, a buggy quest, or a misconfiguration. The process involves archiving the game folder and the MySQL database, directly over SSH.
Identifying the game server location
- /usr/home/game — standard installs
- /mt2 — Zeryon2 or Eridanus (Global) serverfiles
- /usr/game_pvp — MISTIC3 serverfiles
Archiving files and the database over SSH (Putty)
- Connect to the server via Putty.
- For standard installs: cd /usr/home then tar -zcf backupgame.tar.gz game
- For Zeryon2/Eridanus: cd / then tar -zcf backupgame.tar.gz mt2
- For MISTIC3: cd /usr/ then tar -zcf backupgame.tar.gz game_pvp
- Regardless of serverfiles, also archive the database: cd /var/db then tar -zcf backupmysql.tar.gz mysql
- Connect via WinSCP and download both archives (backupgame.tar.gz and backupmysql.tar.gz) to your computer or to external storage.
We recommend a backup before any major update (new quests, configuration changes) and keeping a copy off the server, just in case.
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