FiveM server backups and moving a server

Your FiveM server is backed up every 10 minutes while it runs, and before every risky step. A backup holds your server.cfg and other config files, every resource, txAdmin’s data and your framework’s database. You can restore one, or download it as a zip, from Backups.

What a FiveM backup holds

FiveM has no single “world” file. Your server is made of four things, and backups keep all four together:

The game’s own server files (artifacts) aren’t in backups. They install fresh from Cfx.re.

How backups work on Wilderack

• Every 10 minutes while the server runs and something has changed, a safe copy is made.
• Every time it sleeps, if you turned sleep on. FiveM stays awake by default.
• Before every risky step: switching games, restoring, updating and installing from Mods. These copies are kept for 7 days.
• By hand: open Backups and make one, with a label like “before new police script”.
• On a schedule: add a backup to Schedules, such as every 6 hours.

Backups only store what changed, so many backups of a big server don’t take much room.

Restore a backup

1. Open Backups and pick the backup by its date or label.
2. Choose restore. The panel makes a backup of the current state first, so you can undo it.
3. The server restarts on the restored files and database.

To get back one file, like server.cfg from yesterday, 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. Keep a copy on your own computer before big changes, like switching frameworks.

Move a server from another host or your PC

Moving a FiveM server means moving its files and its database.

1. Stop the old server, so nothing changes while you copy.
2. Download the server folder: server.cfg, any other .cfg files, the resources folder and, if you use txAdmin, the txData folder. You don’t need the artifacts (the folder with FXServer.exe or run.sh).
3. Export the database if you run a framework. Use your old host’s database tool, or a program like HeidiSQL, to export it as one .sql file.
4. Zip it all together, with server.cfg at the top of the zip.
5. Open Games > Bring your world and upload the zip.
6. Paste your license key into the license key field, if it isn’t set yet.
7. Check server.cfg:
   • The endpoint_add_tcp and endpoint_add_udp lines must use the port on your address card.
   • Database settings (often a set mysql_connection_string line) must point at your Wilderack database, not the old host’s.
8. Start the server and watch the Console for errors.

If the database doesn’t come across, or you’re not sure about a step, email us at support@wilderack.com and a person will help.

Paid scripts after a move

Escrowed scripts keep working if your license key belongs to the account that bought them. If one says it failed to verify a protected resource, its hidden .fxap file didn’t make the trip. Download the script again from where you got it, such as the Cfx.re Portal or your Tebex email, and upload the whole folder, hidden files included. See paid and escrowed resources.

Single player

FiveM has no single-player world to bring over. GTA V’s story mode saves and GTA Online characters don’t carry into FiveM. Players start fresh on each server.