Servercopy – A lightweight Discord server replication bot

This tool is designed to replicate the structure of one Discord server on another server (e.g. for backup-servers).

Installation

• Requirements: Java 8 or higher [1]
• Download the current JAR file (see Releases)
• Create a new Discord application [2]
• Grab the token of your new app and create a file named discord.properties with the following contents and replace YOURTOKEN with your app's token:

token=YOURTOKEN
level=INFO

• Open the downloaded JAR file with an archive manager (e.g. 7Zip) and insert your discord.properties file
• Start the bot by executing the JAR file with java

Compiling

• Requirements:
  • Java 8 SDK [3]
  • Apache Maven [4]
  • Git [5]
• Clone the repository: git clone git://github.com/nexadn/servercopy.git
• cd into the repository
• Create a Discord app (see Installation)
• Create an appropriate discord.properties file in src/main/resources (see Installation)
• Run mvn clean package
• The compiled JAR file is located in the target/ folder (do not use the original-servercopy.jar as it does not have all dependencies included)

How to copy a Discord server

• Invite the bot to both servers (see [2] on how to create an invite link for a bot).
• Grant the bot admin privileges on both servers
• Grab the server's IDs by typing !getid in a text channel on each server
• The bot will respond to you privately in a private channel with the numeric IDs of each server
• In this private channel, type !replicate ID1 ID2 to start the replication process (replace ID1 with the ID of the template server and ID2 with the ID of the empty server)
• The bot will respond you when the replication process starts and when it finishes. The process can take quite much time especially when you copy a server with a complex/big structure.

Licensing

Servercopy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Footnotes

• [1] Oracle Java: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre9-downloads-3848532.html
• [2] Creating a new Discord application: https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/wiki/Creating-a-discord-bot-&-getting-a-token
• [3] Java 8 SDK: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
• [4] Apache Maven: https://maven.apache.org/
• [5] Git: https://git-scm.com/