Garry's Mod: Saves and Backups

A Garry's Mod server keeps its progress in two places inside garrysmod:

• sv.db is the server's database. The game and addons such as DarkRP and TTT write player data to it, like money, RP names and karma, and admin mods like ULX keep their tables there. A write lands in the file at once.

• The data folder holds Sandbox's saved props (data/persist) and the files addons keep for themselves.

When you press Stop or Restart, or a Wake & Play server goes to sleep, Haptic tells the game to quit, so it runs its own shutdown steps before the server goes down. Each backup takes a safe copy of sv.db while the game is running, so a backup never catches the database half written.

1. Open your Garry's Mod server and power it down.

2. Open the Backups card, pick the backup you want and click Restore.

3. Start the server again.

Press New World on the Backups card, then press and hold Start New World. On Garry's Mod only player progress is cleared, at the next start: saved player data such as TTT karma, DarkRP money and RP names, and Sandbox's saved props. Your settings, cfg files, admins, bans, mods, maps and DarkRP door and spawn setups stay, and your current world is saved as a backup first.

To reset one addon instead, delete its folder in garrysmod/data with Files.

To bring a world from your own PC or another host, follow Garry's Mod: Move Your World to Your Server.

Ask in Discord or email support@haptic.gg with your server's name and roughly when the progress went missing.