Hosted Server Savegames

[Skarrjn]

Hi all! I am new to the forums. I want to know, what is the command/syntax to load a previous save on a hosted server. Can anyone kindly assist?

[Loewchen]

See: https://wiki.factorio.com/Multiplayer

[Skarrjn]

Thanks for your prompt reply. I've checked the info out in that post, and maybe I am either overlooking the info or I'm not understanding something clearly.

My server is hosted by a provider, and our server borked recently. I need to know which file and what command line I need to add in order to load a previous save file. I have tried searching the forms here, on my host provider's website, and on Google. This is a tad bit frustrating...

[Jon8RFC]

Not sure if you're looking for this:
--start-server-load-latest (unless it's been running a while, in which case it may have overwritten the autosaves)
or this:
--start-server FILE
which would be something like:
--start-server _autosave3.zip

For my Windows-based server, that's in a .bat file and has to be edited for whatever save I want it to load. I can't remember what a linux system would use... a .sh file?

If you're hoping for something to run from within the game console as:
/c game.server_load('_autosave3')
which would be complementary to:
/c game.server_save('my_save_file')

...then I think you're out of luck. That would be nice, I bet. Maybe request that as a feature?