How to Back Up and Restore Your Satisfactory Server

 

    A Satisfactory save is a lot of hours — belts, trains, a sprawling power grid. On gamever your server is backed up automatically, you can take backups on demand, and you can download the raw .sav to keep a copy on your own PC. This guide covers all three.

 

Automatic and on-demand backups

 

    Open the Backups tab in your gamever panel. There you'll see your server's backups and a button to create one now.

 

• Automatic backups run on a schedule so there's always a recent restore point.
• On-demand backup: click to snapshot the server immediately — do this before an update, a branch switch, a mod install, or importing a save.

 

    To restore, pick a backup from the list and restore it; the server rolls back to that point. (A restore overwrites the current world, so take a fresh backup first if you might want to come back to "now".)

 

Download the save to your PC

 

    Want a copy off the server? Two ways:

 

    In-game (easy): connect, open the Server Manager → Manage Saves, and download the active save to your PC. See connecting and claiming.

 

    Over FTP: grab the .sav straight from the server's save folder in the File Manager (or an FTP client — FTP address IP:27820, login on Settings → FTP):

 

/home/server/gamefiles/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/server/

 

    Copy the .sav somewhere safe. That single file is your entire factory — it's also exactly what you'd re-upload to restore manually or move hosts.

 

When to back up manually

 

    Always take a manual backup before:

 

• Updating the server or switching to/from experimental.
• Installing or removing mods.
• Uploading a different save.
• Any big change you're not sure about.

 

Restoring after a problem

 

    If a world corrupts or an update breaks something:

 

1. Go to the Backups tab and restore the most recent good backup; or
2. Re-upload a .sav you downloaded earlier via Manage Saves.

 

    Then Restart and check the Console that it loads cleanly.

 

Additional Tips

 

• Back up before every risky change — updates, mods, save swaps.
• Keep a local .sav copy too — belt-and-braces beyond the panel.
• A restore overwrites "now" — snapshot the current state first if unsure.
• The .sav is the whole world — one file to download, keep, or move.
• Verify after restoring — watch the Console for a clean load.

 

Conclusion

 

    Your Satisfactory factory is safe on gamever: automatic backups run in the background, the Backups tab lets you snapshot and restore on demand, and you can always download the raw .sav in-game or over FTP for an off-server copy. Back up before anything risky, and even a corrupted world or a bad update is a quick rollback away.

 

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