Problem: Upon starting up, old world was completely replaced with a new empty world.
Software: PaperMC
Plugins: I don't remember the exact one, pretty sure it was minepack?
Version: 1.17
I had played in the world earlier today, and everything was working as it should. No errors for the plugins or datapacks, no lag, everything was still normal like usual.
I paused for a couple hours or so, and when I came back and put the server back up it completely wiped my old world. I changed absolutely nothing between when I played last and now.
Since I didn't realize that this could just randomly happen, I haven't made any backups prior to this and was wondering if there was any other way to recover a world? Or am I looking at going to have to just tell the other members of the server we have to start over from scratch again?
Thanks for your time!