uMod - Automating wipe process with updates? - Rust

Posted 6 years ago

Last updated 6 years ago

Hello everyone reading this post!

Do anyone know about any sort of automatic way to wipe the servers? As litterly everyone hosting rust has to manually wipe themself week by week (or month), year by year. How do you personally wipe the servers? Anyone have any tips on what I could do to make life easier without hiring people to do the robotic work for me?

I would love to expand my community by building more dedicated servers to host more rust servers. But that would mean more daily work wiping the servers after their schedule.

Please share your thoughts , opinions and Ideas (:

Posted 6 years ago

Last updated 6 years ago

windows: make batch file to delete/wipe data
windows tasksceduler to run the batch file at timed intervals

linux: shell script
cronjob to run the shell script at timed intervals

Posted 6 years ago

Last updated 6 years ago

I think this is only possible on vanilla servers or slightly modded servers because you need to take into account that umod needs updating (sometimes even a couple of times) which could happen 5 minutes after update but also 24 hours after an update depending on how many fixes a new umod release needs. You also need to take into account that some plugins break after a rust update so you would need to update every individual plugin too.

All in all it's much safer and convenient to be there around updates to make sure it all works. Especially since it's really busy after an update and you wanna make sure everything is working fine.

Posted 6 years ago

Last updated 6 years ago

Some people telling me that they use RSM, but i dunno, it missing a lot of functions. I made a tool like for updating server and autowiping only.

Since i discovered new uMod api looks as plugin updates also can be done

P.S. Still works buggy, xd

Posted 6 years ago

Last updated 6 years ago

This is my one-liner server stop/wipe/update/updatemods/restart for my LinuxGSM rustserver:

~/rustserver stop && ~/rustserver wipeall && ~/rustserver update-lgsm && ~/rustserver update && ~/rustserver mods-update && ~/rustserver start

Merged post

I also change my seednum and the next-wipe dates on my server description manually

5 months after

Posted 5 years ago

Orange
Some people telling me that they use RSM, but i dunno, it missing a lot of functions. I made a tool like for updating server and autowiping only.

Since i discovered new uMod api looks as plugin updates also can be done

P.S. Still works buggy, xd

Hey Orange,
Do you have a link to download this?

2 months after

Posted 5 years ago

Last updated 5 years ago

I'm surprised no one has packaged up a solution for this.

RSM dosn't do auto-wipes, it does auto-updates.

As an aussie who dosn't want to be up at 4am on the first Friday of each month to wipe all my servers, I'd pay a penny for a script that could a) auto-update (waiting for Oxide update before doing server) + Auto-wipe based on pre-set settings (new seed, wipe bps y/n etc).