mark2 backup

Bash script to backup mark2 based Minecraft servers CPU and I/O friendly.

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:

• MARK2NAME
• SERVERDIR
• BACKUPDIR
• WORLDS
• EXCLUDES

You can also override:

• RUNAS (minecraft by default)
• RUNBACKUP_NICE (${BIN_NICE} -n19 by default)
• RUNBACKUP_IONICE (${BIN_IONICE} -c 3 by default)
• TIMESTAMP ($(date +"%Y-%m-%d-00-00") by default)
• ANNOUNCE (false by default)
• SAY_BACKUP_START (Backup started... by default)
• SAY_BACKUP_FINISHED (Backup successfully finished. by default)

Usage

m2backup backup <world>  Backup the server.
m2backup list [world     List current incremental backups.
              -debug     Enable debug output (Must be the last argument).

Installation

Bash script

cd /usr/local/src
git clone https://github.com/yeahwhat-mc/mark2-backup.git
ln -s /usr/local/src/mark2-backup/m2backup /usr/bin/m2backup
chmod a+x /usr/bin/m2backup
mkdir -p /opt/backups/minecraft
chown -R $RUNUSER /opt/backups

Create configuration files

To create the default configuration files which you can use as template, just issue:

m2backup

[INFO] Creating configuration folder /opt/minecraft/.minebackup
[INFO] Creating default configuration file /opt/minecraft/.minebackup/default.conf
[INFO] Successfully created default configuration files, go ahead and adjust the default configuration as you wish.

Use the default template:

cp /opt/minecraft/.minebackup/default.conf /opt/minecraft/.minebackup/main.conf

Now edit the necessary variables (especially the WORLDS and EXCLUDES) or/and override the additional ones:

vi /opt/minecraft/.minebackup/main.conf

First run

m2backup backup main

cron.d

You can find an example cron.d file in the lib/cron.d folder:

cp /usr/local/src/mark2-backup/lib/cron.d/m2backup /etc/cron.d/m2backup

Dependencies

You need nice, ionice, tar and mark2 to use all features of minebackup.sh:

• apt-get install nice ionice tar
• https://mark2.io/install

Todo

• List backups

License

MIT