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# How to Restore a Backup Manually

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This guide will show you how to properly restore a Multicraft backup manually, meaning without using the Multicraft Restore option.

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# 🔩 Find the Backup and Download It 🔩

When you make a backup via the Multicraft panel, your world is added to a ZIP file and put in the root directory of the server with the same name as your world folder.

|| ⚠ NOTE ⚠: You can also see all your backup in the Multicraft panel, in the Restore menu. You can find our guide for how to make a backup [here](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-make-a-backup-noz1kf/).

So you can find your backups in your root directory of the server as ZIP files.

Now, for you to download the backup you want please follow the next steps:

1. Use Filezilla to connect to your server as [this guide](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-connect-with-filezilla-yl0q5r/) tells.

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2. Download the ZIP file that you need by dragging it into your PC files side of Filezilla.

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# ⌨ Test the Backup ⌨

We strongly recommend you test your backup before going deeper into the process. To test your backup you just need to run it into single-player and verify that it is working and that all your constructions are there.

To do so please follow the next steps:

1. Unzip the backup you just downloaded. Usually, you do so by right-clicking on it and then click on `Extract Here`.

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2. Press the Windows key (`⊞ Win`) and type `run`.

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3. Type `%appdata%\.minecraft` in the box that appears and then press the `Enter` key. Note that this should open the default Minecraft installation folder. If you installed it in a different folder you need to go yourself there.

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4. Find your `saves` folder and place your world folder you unzipped in step number one there.

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At the next Minecraft start, you will find your world between your single-player worlds and you will be able to play on it.

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# 🔌 Upload the Backup to Your Server 🔌

After testing the backup and confirming it is not damaged in any way, all you have to do is upload the world folder you tested as a custom world into your server.

|| ⚠ NOTE ⚠: We have a guide [here](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-upload-a-world-to-your-server-2g0nyj/) explaining how to upload your custom world to your server, the process is the same.

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To upload your world to your server you will have to use Filezilla.

|| NOTE: We suggest starting this process by downloading your old world to have a copy of it if needed! Please use [this guide](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-download-your-world-17ewr1r/) to download your world into your PC.

||| [Here](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-connect-with-filezilla-yl0q5r/) is our guide for using Filezilla.

To upload your world please do the following:

1. Prepare the new world folder you want to upload and please be sure it is not named the same as your old/ actual world folder name. You will have to note the name of the new world folder.

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2. Use Filezilla to upload the new world folder to your server, meaning inside the root directory of the server.

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3. Log in to your Multicraft [here](https://mc.ggservers.com/site/login), find the `Custom World` section, paste your new world folder name there (the one you noted in step number one) **without clicking on `Create World` **, and click on `Save`.

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4. Restart your server.

Now you just uploaded your custom world to your server.

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# 🔄 How to Change Between Existing Worlds 🔄

If you restored your world and want by any chance to set back your old world, all you have to do is:

1. Log in to your Multicraft [here](https://mc.ggservers.com/site/login) and stop your server.

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2. Find the `World` section in your main Multicraft page, click on the drop-down menu, select the wanted world and then click on `Save`.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/ba33bb39ceb6d800/3_hczebv.png)

||| To add a new option to the drop-down menu all you have to do is to find the `Custom World` section located under the `World` section, paste the new option you want to add there **without clicking on `Create World` **, and click on `Save`.

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3. Start your server!

Now you just changed back to your old world.


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| If you find any issues restoring a backup manually feel free to contact us anytime on live chat or via the [ticket system](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-qjzuyd/).

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# ❕ Useful Links ❕

- [How to connect with FileZilla](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-connect-with-filezilla-yl0q5r/)
- [How To: Reset Your World](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-reset-your-world-2fh26b/)
- [How to: Upload a World to Your Server](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-upload-a-world-to-your-server-2g0nyj/)