Backup Mod

This mod makes it possible to automatically backup and restore your game saves.

Settings

You can configure the mod by modifying the ‘settings.json’ file, or you can also use the FilUnderscore’s Mod Manager. If you changed the configuration when you were in game, you should re-enter to your world to apply changed settings.

{
  "General": {
    // Backups limit
    // Default: 10
    "BackupsLimit": 10,
    
    // Custom backups folder path
    // IMPORTANT: You must escape all '\' characters or use '/'
    // Example: "C:\DaysToDie\\Backups"
    // Default: ""
    "CustomBackupsFolder": "",
    
    // Write debug information to the logs/log.txt file and to the in-game/server console
    // Default: false
    "DebugMode": false
  },
  
  "AutoBackup": {
    // Is automatic backup enabled
    // Default: true
    "Enabled": true,
    
    // Auto backup delay (seconds)
    // Min: 10
    // Default: 1200 (20 minutes)
    "Delay": 1200,
    
    // Reset the delay timer after a manual backup
    // Default: false
    "ResetDelayTimerAfterManualBackup": false,

    // Skip the next scheduled backup, if there are no players on the server
    // Default: false
    "SkipIfThereAreNoPlayers": false
  },
  
  "Archive": {
    // Keep the last backup of the day
    // Default: false
    "Enabled": false,

    // Backups limit
    // Default: 10
    "BackupsLimit": 10,
    
    // Custom archive folder path.
    // IMPORTANT: You must escape all '\' characters or use '/'
    // Example: "C:\DaysToDie\\Archive".
    // Default: ""
    "CustomArchiveFolder": ""
  },
  
  "Events": {
    // Backup when world loaded
    // Default: true
    "BackupOnWorldLoaded": true,

    // Backup when the last player on the server disconnected
    // Default: false
    "BackupOnServerIsEmpty": false
  },
  
  "Notifications": {
    // Are ALL chat notifications enabled
    // Default: true
    "Enabled": true,

    "Countdown" : {
      // Are countdown chat notifications enabled
      // Default: true
      "Enabled": true,
      
      // Do a countdown * seconds before backup starts
      // Min: 1
      // Default: 5
      "CountFrom": 5
    }
  }
}

By default, your backups for each save will be saved in the ‘%AppData%/Roaming/7DaysToDie/Backups/%WorldName%/%SaveName%‘ directory (on windows). And your archived backups for each save will be saved in the ‘%AppData%/Roaming/7DaysToDie/Archive/%WorldName%/%SaveName%‘ folder (on windows).

P.S. You can also change the UserGameData property in your serverconfig.xml or in the game startup arguments. Then by default it will use the next directories: ‘%UserGameData%/Backups/%WorldName%/%SaveName%‘ for backups, and ‘%UserGameData%/Archive/%WorldName%/%SaveName%‘ for archive.

Commands

You can use the ‘backup‘ command or its shortened version – the ‘bp‘ command.

• ‘backup‘ – perform a forceful backup
• ‘backup info‘ – show the current configuration of the mod
• ‘backup list‘ – show all available backups
• ‘backup restore‘ – restore a save from a backup
• ‘backup delete‘ – delete a backup
• ‘backup start‘ – start an AutoBackup process (even if disabled in settings.json)
• ‘backup stop‘ – stop the current AutoBackup process

Installation

1. Extract the downloaded .zip archive
2. Move the extracted ‘BackupMod’ folder into your ‘Mods’ folder

Compatibility

Required game version: V1.1+

EAC Compatibility

Server only. To load in single-player mode, you must disable EAC.

Ntaklive hope this mod will be useful to someone.

Changelog

v2.3.3 (V1.1)

• Accounting of elapsed backup time
• Fixed incorrect reading of save files

v2.3.2 (V1.1)

• Removed merging of DLLs (because of compatibility issues)

v2.3.1 (V1.1)

• Remove redundant “server:” prefix in chat messages from the mod

V1
DOWNLOAD for V1 (1,4 MB)
Alpha 21
DOWNLOAD for A21 (1,2 MB)

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The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: Ntaklive