NorthBackup:

Cron compatible shell script to backup and announce players on a detached screen based Minecraft Server

Important: this script needs to run whit the same user as the Minecraft screen and the cron!

what this thing does exactly?

• Announce players in game from the backup
• prevent file changes over the tar process
• generating tar.gz files to backup folder based on current date/time

requirements in Linux:

• Installed screen
• Minecraft Server
• Cron (optional)
• Screen based run on the Minecraft server

requirements in game:

if you want to use color-coded text and broadcast you need to install the Essentials plugin else you need to change the broadcast to say at line 14 and 29 in backup.sh

Installation:

Copy the backup.sh and place where you want

You need to change the folloings in the backup.sh file:

screen_name="MineCraft"		#remote screen name
backup_date=$(date +%F_%H-%M)	#backup-file date format / change if nessesery

path_to="/backup/minecraft/"	#Directory to put your backups
backups="/srv/minecraft/North*" #space sepatered list for backup directorys and paterns

filename="minecraft_save_$backup_date.tar.gz"	#backup file name / change if nessesery

Run:

make sure, you have the permission to execute the backup.sh You can run the following from terminal yourPathTo/backup.sh or

Cd /yourPathToBackupScript
./backup.sh"

grant execute privilages

sudo chmod +X "yourPathTo/backup.sh"