Properly restarting a server?

I've destroyed many save games so far. Sometimes I want to make modifications to my bat file, so command "restart" is not useful.

How to perfectly restart a server?

Also, a few times so far, the game crashed during a restart, which also destroyed (somehow) my map saves.

I would love to know THE way to restart the rust server without risking or destroying the map files, or, honestly, anyting at all!

 

I see, somehow this caused issues a few times before..

 

Before i used restart and quit command, but that took ages. Now its a warning like hey server stop crafting, then server.save and when its saved i just terminate the server. Then just reboot. Never had problems with it and reboot within 6 minutes.

 

I don't think terminating the server is a good idea.
If Rust is writing any persistent data to the disk while you are terminating, whatever Rust is writing to might be messed up afterwards, be it plugin data files, the user database or even the map save.

 

I believe that's exactly what happened a few times before, to me.

What would you suggest?

 

Ok thanks for that, i will shutdown the normal way from now.

 

oh nice info! Thanks Wulf!