How to setup automatic server wipes Print

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This guide will help you on how to setup automatic server wipes.

  1. Go to Schedule Tasks tab in your Control Panel
  2. Create a new Schedule Task and select the Wipe Server option
  3. Give it a name of your choice, 12 Hour Wipe Server for example
  4. Select the date/hour you want to next wipe server will happen(*)
  5. Select Recur Every 1 Days
  6. Select Repeat task option
  7. Select Repeat Every 12 hours 
  8. Select For 24 Hours
  9. Switch to Script Parameters tab, select what you want to wipe, don't forget to also accept the confirmation
  10. Save the task

(*)
 You can view the current server hour when you create the task, the hour reporting in the hour field should be the current server hour + 10 minutes margin, base yourself on that hour against your local hour to set up the next hour you want to perform a server wipe.

In this example, it will perform a server wipe every 12 hours, if you want any other number of hours, just change the Repeat Every 12 hours for any number of hours of your choice.

The server will be stopped for executing this task, have that in mind when setting up this task, you might also want to use this task to restart your server since it will stop it and start it back after executing the task.

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