Download a backup of your Minecraft server
We understand you may need to download a backup of your Minecraft server for safekeeping, or if you're cancelling your plan with Lilypad. We've outlined the easiest way to do so below:
- Head to our game panel at panel.lilypad.gg and select your server, then press the Stop button to shut it down.
- Select the Backups button in the sidebar, before pressing the Create Backup button followed by Create. For most servers that are only a few GB in size, this will only take a few minutes, although larger ones could take longer as we have to create and then send the backup off-site for redundancy.
- Click the three dots next to the newly created backup once it's finished generating, and select Download. This will download a .tar.gz file to your computer, which can be extracted using a tool like 7-Zip on Windows, or just by double-clicking it on Mac.
Wanting to download your server's world to share it with your friends?
You can instead right-click the world
folder in the Files tab and select Download which will download a .tar.gz file to your computer, containing just your server's world.
Updated on: 10/08/2025
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