Migrate From Existing Server

Using the script

Warning

Use this script at your own risk, I am not responsible for dataloss!

Please make sure you always have a backup!

Find a directory which is named by game server name and contains all saved game data, usually it will at ~/Steam/steamapps/common/PalServer/Pal/Saved/SaveGames/0/

Make sure migration/migrate.sh, saved game data directory and mounted volume (e.g. palworld/) are in the same directory. Like this:

ubuntu@VM-4-5-ubuntu:~/test-pal-migrate$ ll
total 24
drwxrwxr-x  4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jan 26 03:31 ./
drwxr-x--- 12 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jan 26 03:31 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jan 26 03:30 74406BE1D7B54114AA5984CCF1236865/
-rw-r--r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu  840 Jan 25 05:51 docker-compose.yml
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu  848 Jan 26 03:31 migrate.sh
drwxrwxr-x  7 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jan 26 03:31 palworld/

Run migrate.sh like this

./migrate.sh {CONTAINER_NAME} {SERVER_NAME}

For example,

./migrate.sh test-pal-migrate 74406BE1D7B54114AA5984CCF1236865

Manually

Copy the save from your old dedicated server to your new dedicated server.
In the PalServer\Pal\Saved\Config\LinuxServer\GameUserSettings.ini file of the new server, change the DedicatedServerName to match your save's folder name. For example, if your save's folder name is 2E85FD38BAA792EB1D4C09386F3A3CDA, the DedicatedServerName changes to DedicatedServerName=2E85FD38BAA792EB1D4C09386F3A3CDA.
Delete the entire new server save at PalServer\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\0\<your_save_here>, and replace it with the folder from the old server.
Restart the new server