Rust's EU servers affected by fire in France

Published at 10/03/2021 at 08:00 By Maddie

Rust's EU servers were affected by a fire and the developer is expecting a huge loss of data

Rust's EU servers affected by fire in France

Facepunch Studios, developer of Rust, is expecting a "large amount of data loss" due to a fire breaking out at the OHV Datacenter in France.

The official Rust account tweeted the news earlier today:

Update:
25 of our EU servers remain offline due to a fire at OVH Datacenter in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately, the fire destroyed SBG-2 building. We're expecting a large amount of data loss across the affected servers.

We'll share more news when we can.
— Rust (@playrust) March 10, 2021

OHVCloud stated that the fire broke out at 12:47am local time on March 10. The fire was contained, and no one was harmed, confirmed OHVCloud.

The Rust twitter account later confirmed a total loss of the EU servers affected by the fire, and that data will not be restored.

Update:
We've confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data centre fire. We're now exploring replacing the affected servers.

Data will be unable to be restored.
— Rust (@playrust) March 10, 2021

The initial launch of Rust on console had been delayed due to Covid-19, however it has been confirmed that it will launch on Playstation 4 and Xbox One this spring.