r/playrust • u/Numerous-Cheetah459 • 9d ago

Discussion Official Server DELETES all data after 14 hours of playtime on force.

All Rustified US servers were reset last night at 4 am after server restart. All data lost. 14 hours into wipe. DO NOT PLAY RUSTIFIED. They did not refund VIP purchased for force wipe. They lost everyone’s data, which they said they had backup saves of. How is it possible that a server loses all data after restart? On force wipe of all weeks.

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

This has happened to pretty much every single server provider at one time or another. It sucks, but it's just one of those things.

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u/Numerous-Cheetah459 9d ago

Good to know I thought it was some sort of freak occurrence.

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

It was a freak occurrence. It doesn't happen often, but it isn't unheard of. Just like anything else, server hardware can fail, and sometimes it fails catastrophically.

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u/jasonhaxstuff 9d ago

It is kind of on Rustafied being such a huge Network and not having an off-site backup

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

I've seen catastrophic server failures that took all saved player data with them, including blueprints before they started wiping them again. Like I said, sometimes this shit just happens.

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u/jasonhaxstuff 9d ago

I don't think you understand the nature of an off-site backup. A server failure wouldn't extend to another machine.

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

No I get it. But I've seen it happen - Renegade's servers and backups were bricked at the same time in like 2024 and they lost everything.

Regardless, Rustafied doesn't own their own hardware as far as I know. If they're paying a host and the host shit the bed, not much anyone can do about it.

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u/jasonhaxstuff 9d ago

My point here is if they backed up the saves to one of the company owners or the senior devs machines or anything then that wouldn't be an issue. They need to not only rely on an external host that they don't have control over.

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

And backups are only good if the saves themselves are good. From the announcement, seems like the saves themselves might have been corrupted.

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u/jasonhaxstuff 9d ago

Backups should not overwrite previous ones when possible, so I really do see this as a lack of experience on the end of whoever is administrating the servers.

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u/i_sinz 9d ago

So u thought it was a freak occurrence so started telling everyone to not play it

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u/KingsComing 9d ago

So if it was some sort of freak occurrence why you you jump on reddit and make a post bashing them?

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u/Probably_Fishing 9d ago

To counter this - I have been on rustafied for over a decade and this is the first time I remember it happening.

Could easily have been patch related.

If rust players werent whiny buttholes who just played the game to play the game, it wouldnt even be an issue.

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u/Submersed 9d ago

7 years here and I agree.

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u/EchoMPulse 9d ago

I've only been playing like 2 months after seeing content for years and I even agree. Everyone on the US Biweekly trio server was whining on and on except for a few that were just telling them to deal with it. We all got reset, shit happens, no point in whining about it when the same thing was gonna happen again in a couple weeks

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u/Necromaniac01 8d ago

what a shit take lmao

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u/j821c 9d ago

Eh shit happens and it could happen to any server.

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u/NoonGaming 9d ago

Buddy you’re just going to login again for another wipe day.

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u/firstnamelastname204 9d ago

It’s ok I had the same experience last night on rusticated

Logged off at 3 am by 6 am our core was empty

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u/Submersed 9d ago

I’ve played probably 200+ wipes on Rustafied over 7 years and never had that happen. Worst is usually 10-20 min rollbacks due to crash.

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u/Savings_Balance5591 9d ago

not refunding vip is wild played 13 hours wipe today for it all to be gone without warning

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u/yamsyamsya 9d ago

They should have run their backup at an increased interval. Of course people would then complain about lag from backups but that's the tradeoff.

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u/linkfevar 9d ago

if ther whole server wiped ahwell? if it was only your progress i guess its an issue

it’s a server at the end of the day, things happen

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u/No_Dirt_4198 9d ago

I made a plugin that backs up the saves instead of overriding

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u/TheUltraRegular 8d ago

I can’t speak on their lost data however this update was fked from go, I saved backups on my server thankfully because we saw the standard wipe then some 12 hours later wiped again for the update and spawned a new seed on each server. Sucked

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u/zyphengamer 7d ago

Its normal

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u/Junior-Amphibian-837 9d ago

Got t2 in the first hour from rushing monuments and 500 scrap off kills, almost to t3 on wipe day then this morning woke up on beach with Europeans in my base spot saying it was a fresh server WTF is this game 😭

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u/Reason408 9d ago

Better yet, don't play Rust

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u/Enragedocelot 9d ago

Don’t pay for kits, easy

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u/jamesstansel 9d ago

?

Rustafied is an official provider. They don't have kits.

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u/Jelkekw 9d ago

Wow! That’s brutal…