minebackup.sh

Bash script to backup Minecraft servers using rdiff-backup CPU and I/O friendly.

Commands

minebackup backup [full]             Backup the server.
minebackup listbackups               List current incremental backups.
minebackup restore [<MINUTES>/now]   Restore to snapshot [MINUTES] ago. ("now" for the latest)
minebackup crons                     List configured cronjobs.
-debug                               Enable debug output (Must be the last argument).

Configuration

As you might see, this script creates a configration file in your `$HOME folder.

Make sure you made all adjustments as your needs for the following variables:

• SCREENNAME
• SERVERNAME
• SERVERDIR
• BACKUPDIR
• FULLBACKUP
• BACKUP_QUOTA_MiB

You can also override:

• RUNBACKUP_NICE (${BIN_NICE} -n19 by default)
• RUNBACKUP_IONICE (${BIN_IONICE} -c 3 by default)
• SAY_BACKUP_START (Backup started... by default)
• SAY_BACKUP_FINISHED (Backup successfully finished. by default)

Installation

Bash script

cd /usr/local/src
git clone https://github.com/frdmn/minebackup.sh.git
ln -s /usr/local/src/minebackup.sh/minebackup.sh /usr/bin/minebackup
mkdir -p /opt/backups/minecraft
chown -R ${USER} /opt/backups

Cron job examples

To open the crontab in your default editor:

crontab -e

---

Differential backup every 15 minutes, fullbackup every day at 0:00 am:

*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup full

Differential backup every 5 minutes, fullbackup 2 days at 5:30 am:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup
30 5 */2 * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup full

Differential backup every 30 minutes, fullbackup every 7 days at 6:45 pm:

*/30 * * * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup
45 18 */7 * * /usr/bin/minebackup backup full

Dependencies

You need rdiff-backup, nice, ionice and tar binaries to use all features of minebackup.sh:

apt-get install rdiff-backup tar

(nice and ionice are preinstalled on Debian derivates)