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Info/Jagex's backups
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Overview[edit]
This page document known backups Jagex has of RuneScape along with the various archival methods used[1].
Methods & backups[edit]
- Tape backups were used[2] and were likely overwritten over time as storing every version of the game on an individual tape would be too expensive[3].
- From this era; only the 10 August 2007 tape survived[4]
- It included engine code for 458[5]
- It included content code for 457[5]
- It included engine and content code for 468 (used as the basis for Old School RuneScape[5]
- It included code for 468 (Summoning WIP)[5]
- From this era; only the 10 August 2007 tape survived[4]
- Around 19 April 2012[6], Jagex started using Perforce, a version control system[7].
- The RuneScape Classic source code was added to the compagny's archive after the game was shutted down[9].
Todo[edit]
!!! Can we find a more precise date when Jagex started using Perforce?
References[edit]
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-05-25
- ↑ Inferred from the fact that the version OSRS is based on was found on a tape backup (see RuneScape Documentary: 15 Years of Adventure (2016))
- ↑ Claim made by Graham in the RuneScape Preservation Unit Discord on 2022-01-21 in #cache-retrieval. The fact Jagex only had the OSRS tape corrolate this
- ↑ https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Update:Gielinor_Gazette:_March_2020; inferred from "As you’ve probably heard before, the 2007 backup used for Old School was a lucky find. The game wasn’t backed up very often back in those days but this thankfully changed over time, and we were able to use a version of RuneScape from May 2012 to help us recreate the models we needed."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Mod Lykos in the RuneScape Archive Discord in #runescape-archive 2025-04-20
- ↑ https://runescape.wiki/w/Update:Game_Update_(19_April_2012)
- ↑ Wahi in the RuneScape Preservation Unit Discord in #general on 2023-03-06; quoting a message from Mod Stu that mentions that Perforce is used
- ↑ Data directly entered in RuneLibris by manpaint on 2025-05-25
- ↑ ImRubic in the RuneScape Preservation Unit Discord in #general on 2021-08-26 (from a conversation with Mod Osborne
