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Updating your server can usually be done without any risk of losing your saved world. In most cases, updates are compatible with the previous saved games. | Updating your server can usually be done without any risk of losing your saved world. In most cases, updates are compatible with the previous saved games. | ||
If something special has to be done to migrate a world for an update, Strange Loop Games will tell you that in the update announcement and you should follow anything special the devs say needs to be done before doing these steps. These are just the general steps to use for straightforward updates. | If something special has to be done to migrate a world for an update, [[Strange Loop Games]] will tell you that in the update announcement and you should follow anything special the devs say needs to be done before doing these steps. These are just the general steps to use for straightforward updates. | ||
== Quick Guide == | == Quick Guide == | ||
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Occasionally, when a world is migrating through an update, it will crash. Very often it will recover from the crash and then load up, complete the migration, and be fine. Its always worth letting it have a retry if it crashes when migrating the first time. | Occasionally, when a world is migrating through an update, it will crash. Very often it will recover from the crash and then load up, complete the migration, and be fine. Its always worth letting it have a retry if it crashes when migrating the first time. | ||
However, if you keep having issues you should back off and stop your server and seek advice in the | However, if you keep having issues you should back off and stop your server and seek advice in the [http://discord.gg/eco Eco Discord], [http://ecoforum.strangeloopgames.com Eco forums], or [[Reporting Bugs|report it as a bug]] on Github. This does not happen often and in most cases there is an easy remedy. This is one reason for holding on to your backup folders and files until you know for sure everything is working. This way if the devs need to see a fresh copy that has not been migrated yet you will have that for them. | ||
[[Category: Server management]] | [[Category: Server management]] | ||
[[Category: Tutorials]] | [[Category: Tutorials]] |