How to Restore a Backup on Your Valheim Server
How to restore from Valheim's automatic backups.
Valheim keeps .old backup files alongside saves:
worldname.db.old— previous world dataworldname.fwl.old— previous world metadata
To restore: stop server, rename .old files to replace the current ones, restart.
Configure backup count with -backups 4 and intervals with -backupshort 7200 / -backuplong 43200.
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