Discord Backup Documentation

Create RestoreCord snapshots, understand plan limits, preview a recovery point, and restore a Discord server after an incident.

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A RestoreCord backup is a point-in-time snapshot of your Discord server's structure and content. Restoring rebuilds channels, roles, permissions and message history. Members and their roles come back in two separate steps afterwards.

What a backup covers

In the snapshot
  • +Categories and channels
  • +Roles and permission overwrites
  • +Server settings
  • +Messages (plan-limited per channel)
  • +Attachments (Business and Enterprise)
  • +Emojis (optional toggle)
Not in the snapshot
  • Members — pulled separately
  • Role assignments — restored separately
  • Voice/message activity and presence
  • Files over 8 MB
  • Channels the bot cannot read
  • Excluded channels you deselected

A snapshot is only as good as its last test. Discord rate limits, missing bot permissions and deleted source files all change the result — restore into a spare server before you need it for real.

Features

One-click backups

Every server card has a Create Backup button, sitting next to Manage and Pull Members. Attach a custom bot to the server and it lights up — the dialog then captures the whole server in one pass, with message depth, attachment mode, emojis and channel exclusions set per backup.

Servers
Search servers
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Aurora CommunityOwner
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Manage
Pull Members
Create Backup
Create Backup opens the snapshot dialog: name, message count, attachment mode, emojis, excluded channels.

Snapshot previewer

Open any backup as a read-only Discord client and browse it exactly as it was captured — channels, categories, roles and real message history. It is how you confirm a recovery point is usable without restoring it first. Channels the bot could not read show a padlock rather than looking empty.

Snapshot preview — read-onlyAurora Community · March 4, 14:05
Community
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Voice Lounge
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Mira14:02

Snapshot captured before the permission redesign.

Kelan14:04

Roles and overwrites look right in the preview.

Aurora Bot14:05

Backup completed — 42 channels, 18 roles, 6,300 messages.

Scheduling and pinning

Business and Enterprise can run backups hourly, daily, weekly or on set dates using your saved scope. Pin a known-good backup and scheduled rotation will never delete it — see pricing and limits.

Role restore

A restore recreates roles with new Discord IDs, so RestoreCord re-maps every member's assignments and holds them for 7 days. Pull your members back, then run Restore Roles to hand everyone their old roles at Discord-safe rates.

Member Name
membername
Roles
Member
Verified
Moderator
Server Booster
Message @Member Name
Restoring roles4 assignments

Recovery order

Step 1
Contain

Secure owner, revoke access, rotate tokens

Step 2
Restore structure

Channels, roles, permissions, messages

Step 3
Pull members

Prior-authorized members only

Step 4
Restore roles

Re-assign saved roles to members who returned

Step 5
Reopen

Staff first, then the community

Stage
Structure
What it moves
Channels, roles, permissions, messages
Stage
Members
What it moves
Prior-authorized members into the target server
Stage
Roles
What it moves
Saved role assignments onto members who returned

Guides

Getting started

Create and verify your first snapshot.

Open Getting started

Pricing and limits

Snapshot counts, message caps, Standard vs Premium files.

Open Pricing and limits

Disaster recovery

Contain an incident and recover in the right order.

Open Disaster recovery

Snapshot workflow

Previews, pinning, schedules, exclusions, restore controls.

Open Snapshot workflow

Snapshots API

Automate creation and restoration.

Open Snapshots API

FAQ