Gametracker rarely responds to inquiries, unfortunately.
Getting them to download updated GEOIP databases is like pulling teeth.
Plus one for getting your own system integrated though.
Issue with the update (at least for us). Causing all custom scripts to no longer work.
Ticket raised to Luis, he is looking into a fix.
I would suggest against updating until the fix is released.
We backup the entire drives that house the TCAFiles/Users/ folders.
I personally don't know of any other sort of efficient way to do it. Though we run a backup server in each location usually running directly to the switch (so it doesn't cost data and has a direct connection).
Not really possible when you're running R1Soft.
Since it's on a different system entirely and they don't store the files in a plain format
Hoping to speak to some developers soon to see if it's even possible.
Unfortunately not yet.
Still looking at getting an API developed for such actions.
The R1Soft backups are mostly for bare-metal restores (in case of drive failure etc).
We personally run full R1Soft.
Though we do have an interesting setup of it, whereby user files are all kept on their own SSDs. So exclusion based works perfectly for us.
ARK recently reduced the size massively.
Initial install used to be 30GB+ as it had all user end files as well.
They reduced this down to 3.35GB for Windows.
It's only once people start adding mods (some are 1GB+) / massive worlds the files get a little large.
I believe this is a bug in the query.
We don't know of a fix currently.
However websites such as: https://arkservers.net/server/149.202.89.22:27019
Set these users as 'connecting / unknown' so they don't get shown in the main players list.
I don't think people are allowed to sell configs anymore:
http://clientforums.tcadmin.com/showthread.php?t=11968
I could be mistaken though, @ECF is probably the best to answer this question.