I want to back up my files and database

If you want to back up your important data, there is a few things to consider:

• your data pack (let's assume it's in /home/otsmanager/forgottenserver)
• your website files (location: /home/otsmanager/www or /home/otsmanager/www/public_html)
• your MySQL database dump

Pretty much everything else does not matter - it will be recreated when you purchase a new OTS Hosting Service or run our installation script - depending on which you use.

Backing up files

When it comes to backing up your files, this is simple. You can check out our article on how to share files to simply download a backup to your PC.

Simply use those two commands:

otsmanager@176-31-89-137:$ transfer /home/otsmanager/forgottenserver otsmanager@176-31-89-137:$ transfer /home/otsmanager/www

Backing up databases

TIP: The server automatically makes MySQL backups and stores them in /var/lib/automysqlbackup/.

In order to transfer your MySQL database, you first need to export it to a file. Assuming your database name is forgottenserver run:

otsmanager@176-31-89-137:~$ mysqldump forgottenserver | gzip > forgottenserver.sql.gz

Now you can transfer it as usual:

otsmanager@176-31-89-137:~$ transfer forgottenserver.sql.gz