# Conan Exiles server backups and moving your world

> Where a Conan Exiles Enhanced server saves its world, how backups will work on Wilderack, and how to bring a single-player world or one from another host.

By the Wilderack Crew. Last reviewed 2026-11-13. Topic: Backups and your world.

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A Conan Exiles world is one database file: every base, thrall, chest and character is in it. Keeping that file safe is what backups are for. Because the server writes it all the time, backups wait for a moment when the server has stopped.

> [!NOTE]
> Conan Exiles servers can't be ordered on Wilderack yet. We open Conan Exiles once Funcom gives us its written OK. This guide shows how backups will work then.

## Where the world lives

| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| `ConanSandbox/Saved/game_0.db` | The world: buildings, thralls, items, characters and clans |
| `ConanSandbox/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/` | Your settings: `ServerSettings.ini`, `Engine.ini`, `Game.ini` |
| `ConanSandbox/Mods/modlist.txt` | Your mods, in load order |

Before Enhanced the world file was `game.db`. Enhanced copies `game.db` to `game_0.db` the first time it starts, if there's no `game_0.db` yet, and uses that from then on. On a Linux server the name must be in lowercase, as the Enhanced notes point out.

Game files aren't in backups: Conan Exiles installs fresh from Steam. Workshop mods download again on the next start.

## How backups work on Wilderack

- **Before every risky step**: switching games, restoring, updating and changing mods. These copies are kept for 7 days.
- **By hand**: stop the server, then make one in **Backups**, with a label like "before the raid".
- **On a schedule**: add a restart and a backup to **Schedules** at an hour when few players are on.
- **When it sleeps**, if you turned sleep on.

We don't copy a running Conan world every 10 minutes, as we do for other games. Conan writes its database all the time, and a copy taken mid-write could be broken. Before Conan Exiles opens, we'll check that scheduled backups always get a whole copy.

## Restore a backup

1. Open **Backups** and pick a backup by its date or label.
2. Choose restore. The panel backs up the current world first, so you can undo it.
3. The server starts on the restored world.

> [!WARNING]
> Restoring rolls the whole world back. Anything built, tamed or looted since that backup is gone. Tell your players first.

To get back one settings file, like yesterday's `ServerSettings.ini`, open it in **Files** and pick an earlier version by date.

## Download a backup

Open **Backups**, choose a backup and download it. You get a zip with a link that works for 24 hours.

## Bring your single-player world

1. In Steam, right-click Conan Exiles, choose **Manage**, then **Browse local files**.
2. Open `ConanSandbox/Saved` and find your save, a `.db` file.
3. Copy it and rename the copy `game_0.db`, all lowercase.
4. Zip it, and upload the zip in **Games**, then **Bring your world**. We take a backup first.
5. Run the same mods as you did in single player, in the same order, or modded items and buildings go missing.

## Move a server from another host

1. **Stop the old server**, so the database isn't written mid-copy.
2. **Download** `ConanSandbox/Saved/game_0.db` (or `game.db` from an older server), your config folder and `ConanSandbox/Mods/modlist.txt`.
3. **Zip them** and upload the zip in **Games**, then **Bring your world**.
4. **Add your mods** again in **Settings**, in the same order, and start the server.

Wilderack writes its own admin password and RCON settings, so you don't need to copy those. Copy the new admin password from **Settings**.

## Questions and answers

### Where is the Conan Exiles server save?

In ConanSandbox/Saved. On Conan Exiles Enhanced the world is one database file called game_0.db. Older servers called it game.db, and Enhanced copies game.db to game_0.db the first time it starts.

### Why does Wilderack only back up a Conan Exiles server when it stops?

The server writes its world database all the time. A copy taken while it writes could be broken, so we copy it when the server is stopped or asleep and the file is whole.

### Can I move my single-player Conan Exiles world to a server?

Yes. Find your save, a .db file in ConanSandbox/Saved in your game folder, rename it game_0.db in lowercase, zip it and upload it in Games, then Bring your world. Use the same mods as in single player.

## Sources

- [UE4 to UE5 migration](https://exiles-enhanced.inflexion.io/servers/ue4-ue5-migration/), Inflexion Games
- [Linux servers](https://exiles-enhanced.inflexion.io/servers/linux/), Inflexion Games
- [Server Configuration](https://conanexiles.fandom.com/wiki/Server_Configuration), Conan Exiles Wiki

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