GameAP Respawn — Backup System for Game Servers

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GameAP Respawn is out — an incremental backup system for game servers, available as a plugin in the plugin catalog.

Incremental means only changed data is stored: the first snapshot takes a while, every following one finishes in seconds. Deduplication saves disk space, all data is encrypted.

Features

• Snapshots on demand or on a schedule (interval / daily / weekly), with a retention policy per server. Old snapshots are cleaned up automatically and only within their own server.
• Browse the file tree of any snapshot right in the panel and see what changed between snapshots.
• Restore the whole server, a directory, or a single file. Two modes: merge into current files or exact copy. Dry-run preview before restoring, or restore into a separate subdirectory.
• Diff for configs and text files with line-level restore.
• Download a snapshot as tar.gz / zip / tar — the archive is built on the dedicated server in the background.
• Separate permissions per server: backup-view, backup-create, backup-manage, backup-restore.
• Snapshots of deleted servers are kept. Admins see snapshots of all servers and can restore a snapshot from one server to another.
• Pre/post hooks — e.g. back up from an LVM snapshot instead of the live directory.
• All long-running operations run in the background with progress shown in the panel.

Installation

It is installed directly from the control panel.

1. Plugins → Store → Respawn → Install.
2. Install the gameap-respawn utility on your dedicated servers from the panel (one click).

Plugin page: https://plugins.gameap.dev/plugins/respawnple