Created by Tovervlag, April 6 2021

Please use at your own risk.

With this you can create a backup of your Windows Valheim server.

Description

This script basically consists of two parts.

1. The actual backup.
2. The cleanup of the backups.

Running the script.

• Manually: Right click and run with powershell.
• Automatically: You might want to schedule it but it's still prompting for creating the archive so it might not work. I will test this in the near future. If you need this really badly and I haven't added to this yet, send me a message, I don't think it's a lot of work.

variables

• $date = We need to get the date to create the filename.
• $keepamount = This is the number of the amount of backups you want to keep.
• $backupsourcefolder = This is the Valheim folder, we need to create a backup of this folder.
• $backupdestfolder = This is the folder where the backups will be stored.
• $filename = This is the created filename based on the name of the game, the date and the archive extension.
• $fulldestpath = This is the $backupdestolder with the filename combined.
• $files = This is the list of all the files in the $backupdestfolder.
• $actualamount = This var has the count of all the files in the $backupdestfolder.