Save restart of a headless server?

[sirmg]

Hi,

my headless server is running on a vServer.
The server has his own user : facrorio.

How can i restart the server without losing any data? I once tryed simple #restart as root but there was a data loss in the savegame.
How can i close the server to prevent this?

[sirmg]

No one have an idea?

Right now the server does not save on the main savegame it uses only the autosave files.
When i now restart the server i must rename a autosave or change the the server start to an autosave file.

So is this a bug? Ore is your how to make make a server tut wrong?

[daniel34]

If you close the server with CTRL+C or by sending SIGINT to it, it will save the game to the savename it started from and then quit.

[sirmg]

If you close the server with CTRL+C or by sending SIGINT to it, it will save the game to the savename it started from and then quit.

CTRL+C will not work because its a process. How does SIGINT work? I never heard of it?!

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sudo -u factorio /usr/local/factorio/factorio/bin/x64/./factorio --start-server Neuland.zip

This is how i start the server.



This is the process.

[daniel34]

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kill -INT $(pidof factorio)

will send the SIGINT signal to the process, making it save the game and then exit.

You can also use Bisa's [linux] Dedicated server init script