erics32/craftybackupscript

Script to automatically backup any folder, mainly meant for Minecraft servers

CraftyBackupScript

Script to automatically backup any folder, easily and efficiently. Has special features for Minecraft Servers in mind.

Download

Simply download a .zip file from the main repo page or download a more stable release from the Releases Page. (preferred)

Features

• Compresses entire folder into a 7zip archive, and puts the archive into the specified folder
• Proper Minecraft save toggling (optional)
• Optional Minecraft server stopping after backup (best for non-peak hours, to be used with CraftyStartScript for a restart)
• Keeps track of how long a backup can take
• Configuration options to tweak the script to your liking (config options inside script)
• Labels archive with date and time
• Snapshots of the latest backups.

Instructions

Backups

Edit the "Config" section inside CBS-Backup.py for the server you want to backup. (Completely separate scripts are needed for each different server)

The required sections you need to edit for the script to work are screenName, serverPath, filePath, and the prefix of archiveName. Everything else is up to personal preference.

This script is designed to be ran manually or by a cron job. Configure as needed.

Run with command python3 CBS-Backup.py

Snapshots

The file CBS-Snapshot.py copies all the most recent backups generated by CBS-Backup.py. Making it easier to grab a copy of a live server for development on another computer or to keep the last backups safe from being deleted.

To configure this script, add lines to the bottom specifying the orginal backup save path for each server. Edit the config section as well.

(Example: snapshot("Archives/Creative/"))

This script is meant to be manually triggered as backups are not deleted in the Snapshots folder.

If you want to make the latest snapshot fo all the servers you have, make a shell script triggering every Backup script (example), then trigger both scripts by using command ./backupall.sh; python3 CBS-Snapshot.py

Requirements

• Python 3 (to run the script)
• Any plain text editor: Notepad++, TextEdit, or nano will do fine.
• Linux packages: p7zip, p7zip-full, python3, screen

Notes

Released under the MIT license.

Please report any issues my program may have. Pull requests are welcome too!

Tested with Debian 8 minimal and Ubuntu 14.04 Server. This script was written with only Linux in mind, so any other OS will not be supported.