Conan Exiles server backups and moving your world

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.

Where the world lives

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.

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.