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Admincraft6mo ago
HoY

New to SSH & Pterodactyl. Looking for my backups

I've had a dedicated server for a couple of months now, and just recently got SSH access. I would like to use the scheduled backups daily, but I dont know where to find those files on the server. I have located the container my server is running from but they do not appear to be there. Any advice? (I know I could message support, but I ask a lot of questions already and don't want to bother them with this one lol)
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๖ۣۜOptimusPrime
I only have Pelican installed currently but it should be in the same place /var/lib/pelican/backups just replace pelican with pterodactyl
Torrent
Torrent6mo ago
Try find / -name backups Cuz tbh I forget where The find command is my go to in like every situation
Harrison
Harrison6mo ago
yeah its the same place but with pterodactyl
Skullians
Skullians6mo ago
For some reason when I delete backups they don’t delete from the actual system .-. I have like 30 backups that I deleted and none display on the panel lmao but they’re still there
ProGamingDk
ProGamingDk6mo ago
thats odd deleting servers or?
Skullians
Skullians6mo ago
deleting servers but not forcibly I would have assumed they deleted backups related as well
ProGamingDk
ProGamingDk6mo ago
nope years old bug at this point 4 years old
ProGamingDk
ProGamingDk6mo ago
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ProGamingDk
ProGamingDk6mo ago
(not this screenshot)
Skullians
Skullians6mo ago
ffs
๖ۣۜOptimusPrime
Welp time to manually delete them with ssh
HoY
HoYOP6mo ago
I do have this folder, but it appears to be empty. I did the find command and checked every backup folder listed, and non of them have the existing backup file. can I search for the file specifically? the panel doesnt give me the file name but it has some other information on it
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๖ۣۜOptimusPrime
If you press the 3 dots and press download it should give you the file name
HoY
HoYOP6mo ago
this might explain it! interesting
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HoY
HoYOP6mo ago
I'll run another backup and double check the /backups folder ty Next issue, there might be a simple answer for. We've made a script to download the daily pterodactyl backup file once a day, and in testing I am only able to download files at between 3-6 mbps in terminal. is that limited somewhere? even via SFTP I can get up to 15mbps. (i have a 1600mbps connection)
Skullians
Skullians6mo ago
Is it downloading to a different server? or a different place you can try something like fastback (for modded) or drivebackupv2 (for plugins), it supports uploaded to a webserver or somewhere
HoY
HoYOP6mo ago
I'm downloading it from my dedicated server with a 1gbps connection, to my personal computer with a 1.6gbps connection. I am using simplebackups to do 6 hour backups of the world folder already, but I also have pterodactyl doing a daily full backup of everything (excluding simplebackups files)

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