My minecraft server management script with safe online Backup.
Config-variables are located at the top of server.sh
./server.sh start|stop|attach|status|backup
Creates a screen session and starts a minecraft server within.
Fails, if a session is already running with the same sessionname.
Sends stop command to running server instance to safely shut down.
attaches to screen session. Exit with CTRL + A d
lists active screen sessions with SCREEN_SESSIONNAME.
Backs up the world as a tar.gz archive in ./backup/.
If a running server is detected,
the world is flushed to disk and autosave is disabled temporarily to prevent chunk corruption.
The command specified in $BACKUP_HOOK is
executed on every successful backup. $ARCHNAME contains the relative path to the archive.
This can be used to further process the created backup.
Create user and group minecraft with home in /var/minecraft.
Populate the directory with server.sh and a server jar.
Place minecraft.service in /etc/systemd/system/
and run systemctl start minecraft to start once or
systemctl enable minecraft to enable autostarting.
To backup automatically, place or symlink mc-backup.service and
mc-backup.timer in /etc/systemd/system/. Run the following:
sudo systemctl enable mc-backup.timer
sudo sytemctl start mc-backup.timer
This wil start the enable the timer upon startup and start the timer to run the backup after every interval specified in mc-backup.timer.
The scripts are provided as-is at no warranty. They are in no way idiot-proof.
Improvements are welcome.