Minecraft world automatic backup to AWS S3 bucket - Part 2 (Custom functions)

Hi folks. Got an update for the backup script. This time, you’ll have the ability to implement your own upload capabilities. I provide a mock implementation for the required functions. Here is the script again, now modified and a bit cleaned up. I hope it’s helpful. ...

April 17, 2016 · 3 min · hannibal

Minecraft world automatic backup to AWS S3 bucket

Hi Folks. Previously we created a Minecraft server using Docker. After my server got popular in the family, and a lot of stuff started to pile up on it, as a good IT person, I’m backing up the world once in a while. For that, I’m using AWS S3 with the CLI and a little bash script which runs once a week. The script is really straightforward. I’m doing manual versioning, although S3 does provide one out of the box. However, amazon’s S3 versioning doesn’t allow limiting the number of versions being kept. And since I’m doing that anyways, might as well take care of the rest. ...

April 16, 2016 · 2 min · hannibal