Best Discord server backup practices
Imagine you own a server you spent countless hours configuring, and dozens of members contributed to it through texting and engaging in it.
One day you wake up to see everything is gone. And see only one channel, named something very offensive towards you.
Turns out your own staff member got compromised and destroyed your whole community. Horrible stuff.
This is exactly what happened to us in early 2019. And that is also what sparked the creation of marCloudBackup - a full solution to complete discord server backups.
How to protect yourself?
1. Grant permissions carefully
Never give anyone permissions they do not specifically need. Take your time to properly configure your server roles and grand them wisely.
This also applies to bots. If you have a bot that updates the member counter channel, do not give it access to read all messages and make any changes to the server other than the one channel it modifies.
That significantly reduces the attack surface of your server.
2. Have a backup solution in place
Everything can fail, and everyone can turn out to be against you, like in our case, our trusted staff member.
It is best to be prepared for everything, and a discord backup bot is a perfect solution for that!
We own a backup bot, and this article was in fact created to boost its SEO after a recent incident with Discord.
You can protect your server now, by inviting marCloudBackup for FREE!
Our bot has been around since 2019 and has never suffered from any data breaches or privacy violations and has been a reliable discord backup solution that served thousands throughout its existence.
If you only care about a local backup without using any 3rd party services like ours, you can use a local tool Discord Chat Exporter by Tyrrrz, which creates local chatlogs from all channels in your server.
That way, all your messages are safe from being lost, and stored securely and privately on your own computer. Or rather, the security depends on you, how secure you make it.
When it comes to alternatives to our bot, I can recommend the Xenon bot. The bot has along history of being reputable, in fact longer than ours, and works with Discord directly, giving you a quality experience.
Why we wrote such article?
After Discord (probably by mistake) terminated my account and the bots along with it, marCloudBackup has had a very hard time getting any new users.
This is an effort of bringing the light back to the project. Countless hours of human work (not vibecoded like some competitors) were put into the development and design of the infrastructure and the bot itself.
I really don't want this to go to waste. Especially since I never truly released the bot.
So this shall be an effort for a new beginning!
Is this content slop? Maybe. In fact yeah. It's common sense to manage permissions correctly after all. But the keywords will hopefully match some queries :p And no AI was used to write this, so at least it's human slop. :D