Minecraft – How to make an automatic server backup in Minecraft

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There is no built-in implementation in a Vanilla Minecraft server to force a save every X minutes, then back up the files into a folder. I know how to do log rotations and I can also do a normal backup using Window's XCOPY or ROBOCOPY, but have no idea how to do it when the server is running to prevent possible data corruption.

How can I perform an automatic backup that ensures a consistent state of the game data?

The server is running on Windows.

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See here for a list of Server managers, which should help you with more than just backups. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_editors/Server_wrappers

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I don't have access to Minecraft on Linux at the moment, but that command line looks suspicious. Give this a try:

java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -cp "$HOME/.minecraft/bin/*" -Djava.library.path="$HOME/.minecraft/bin/natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft "$USER"

If it still isn't working for you, knowing what does happen (error messages, lets you in but has wrong name, …) would be helpful for further troubleshooting. :-)

Edited: Work on Ubuntu 12.04 x32

*P.S.: after "$USER" you can also add "$PASSWORD" "$SERVER" *

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The seed is just a number in the server.properties file. You can see the seed value of the world in the client now, and when you set up a permanent server, add it into there so you dont get the cliffs of mojang when generating new chunks.

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