Minecraft – RR# ComputerCraft Startup Script

My recommended solution for this kind of thing tends to be "Use The System!".

If you have the option, enabling Time Machine from system preferences to create a full disk backup every hour is usually a good idea, and if you don't have the opportunity, you might want to consider getting an external disk and implementing that approach.

If that is completely out of the question for whatever reason, the alternative is using cron.

Setting up the interval running is easy enough, a simple man crontab should give you the information you need on that; but having a script to actually do the backup might be useful:

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/Desktop/MinecraftServer # or the path to your minecraft server directory
rm -rf world.bak
cp -r world world.bak

Save this as a "minecraft_server_backup.sh" and chmod +x it.

This particular script only keeps the most recent backup, and additionally, it doesn't actually check if the server is running before making a backup.

So, I guess you have a Linux VPS or dedicated server, where you can install whatever you want? Good.

For this, we use the bukkit server.

Here are some instructions:

1. Download CraftBukkit's latest build: CraftBukkit - Recommended Build 
2. Put the .jar in a folder, for this example we'll use a generic one: ~/craftbukkit 
3. Move to the above directory in terminal with 'cd ~/craftbukkit' 
4. Create a new file in the minecraft folder and name it craftbukkit.sh 
5. Edit the file and paste this into it: 

#!/bin/sh BINDIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -fn "$0")") cd "$BINDIR" java -Xmx1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar -o true

6. Make the file executable, either by running "chmod +x ~/craftbukkit/craftbukkit.sh" in a terminal, or by changing the permissions in the file's properties. 
7. Then, in terminal, type '~/craftbukkit/craftbukkit.sh' to run to start the server.  
8. When you're done playing around, issue the "stop" command in console. 

You can run bukkit like described above, but there are other options - you can run the server permanently with an init script or run it with an ASCII interface

EDIT:

Reread your question, could be that I misunderstood. So here is another link to something that should be what you need - Bukkit Webby

Bukkit Webby is a lightweight web administration that is easy and fast to setup It's made of two components :

WebbyBukkitPlugin is a Bukkit Plugin that interacts with Bukkit, read your server log, find all online users, etc.

WebbyRTK is a RTK module that interacts with RemoteToolkit and run the webserver. Even if Bukkit has been shutdown, the webserver will persists and allow you to restart Bukkit.

Current Features

• Server administration based on Bukkit Remote Toolkit (Start / Stop / Restart / Reload)
• Online configuration files
• Online server log
• Backup management (manual backup, automated restore)
• Easy installation : drop the jars and files as any bukkit plugins, setup port, login and password for webby and RTK, and you are done !
• NO APACHE NEEDED !

There are tons of other bukkit plugins for website administration. If my suggestion is not what you want, you can check the plugins.