How to back up your Discord server
Discord servers have lots of work put into them and that work deserves a safe and reliable backup solution.
Whether your server is a small community of friends, or a large community with thousands of members, you should always rely on a backup bot that takes your server's safety seriously, is reliable and can be trusted with your data.
In this article, we will go through the best practices for backing up your Discord server, and how to restore it when needed.
How to back up your Discord server?
The best way to back up your Discord server is to use a backup bot, which is a bot that can create complete backups of your server, including all channels, messages, roles, emojis, stickers, and more.
There are several backup bots available, but we recommend marCloudBackup which we own, for its reliability, security, and ease of use.
- Invite the bot to your server: marcloud.net/backupbot
- Create a backup: Use
mb!backupcommand to create a backup of your server. The bot will create a backup and provide you with a unique backup code. - Make sure you maintain access to your discord account and the code, as you will need both to restore your server in the future if needed.
- When something bad happens, you will be prepared to recover most of your server's data and settings, and get back to normal in no time!
Please read our documentation for more details on how to create a backup with customized options.
How to restore your Discord server?
In the event of a disaster, or when you want to get a part of your server back, you can restore it using marCloudBackup's backup restore feature.
The bot will retrieve the backup you created, and restore all channels, messages, roles, emojis, stickers, and more, to your server.
The restoration process is usually very fast, and generally depends on the amount of roles, emojis and messages — those resources take the most time to restore due to ratelimiting by Discord.
To restore your server, you can use the mb!restore command, and provide the backup code you received when you created the backup.
Make sure you read the confirmation message carefully and understand that the restoration process will overwrite your current server's data and settings.
So if you have made any changes to your server after creating the backup, those changes will be lost, unless you customize the restore options.
Make sure you read our documentation for more details on how to restore your server with customized options.
For custom restore, have a look at the restore options documentation to learn how to restore only specific parts of your server, and keep the rest of it intact.
Conclusion
Backing up your Discord server is crucial to ensure the safety of your community and its legacy.
marCloudBackup is a reliable and trustworthy backup bot that has been around since 2019, and has always kept the highest standards of security and privacy for its users.
Those are not false claims, and we take pride in it, thus putting it out everywhere for everyone to see, and verify for themselves.
Invite marCloudBackup to your server now and test it for yourself. It's FREE! And we only charge for additional features for those who demand even more.