From 8633b335ae79757f478dcb8ce99797b9d4683f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Pascal=20K=C3=B6nig?= <sockenklaus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:14:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added an option to the config to turn
 whole-backup-compression on and off

---
 config.example | 10 ++++++++++
 minecraft      |  8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.example b/config.example
index 14aa4c0..f7143e5 100644
--- a/config.example
+++ b/config.example
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ LOGPATH="/home/${USERNAME}/mcbackup/logs"
 # whole-backup is a complete uncompressed backup of the whole server folder.
 WHOLEBACKUP="/home/${USERNAME}/mcbackup/server"
 
+# Compress the whole backup with bzip2?
+# Note that this may not save a lot of disk space since there can be a lot of files
+# in your server directory, that are already compressed, but it can slow down the
+# backup a bit. This highly depends on the plugins you're using.
+#
+# For example: The png files generated by Dynmap are already compressed and still use
+# a lot of space in your server directory, so the compression ratio of the compressed
+# backup will not be very high.
+COMPRESS_WHOLEBACKUP=YES
+
 # Where the worlds are located on the disk. Can not be the same as MCPATH.
 # You need to move your worlds to this directory manually, the script
 # will then handle the nessessay symlinks.
diff --git a/minecraft b/minecraft
index d0d668e..6887abe 100755
--- a/minecraft
+++ b/minecraft
@@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ mc_whole_backup() {
 	echo "backing up entire setup into $WHOLEBACKUP"
 	path=`datepath $WHOLEBACKUP/mine_`
 	as_user "mkdir -p $path"
-	as_user "tar -cpf $path/whole-backup.tar $MCPATH"
+	
+	if [ "$COMPRESS_WHOLEBACKUP" ]
+	then
+		as_user "tar -cpjf $path/whole-backup.tar.bz2 $MCPATH"
+	else
+		as_user "tar -cpf $path/whole-backup.tar $MCPATH"
+	fi
 }
 mc_world_backup() {
 	#