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It's at 0.1, so 10 backups per hour, and it seems to have fixed itself magically, because now it's behaving properly.

Follow up question, could you implement solid archives? They'll improve the compression ratios a lot, especially for flat worlds, and a setting would be nice for those who need to extract individual chunks, too, the only downside would be that you'd need to use another compression algorithm, since Deflate and Deflate64 don't support it, but LZMA, for example, will get better compression ratios, speed, and support solid archives, I'll edit this post in a bit with a comparison between Deflate64 and LZMA at normal settings.

Edit: Okay, results are in, this is a 1.71GB world that's generated using the PlotMe plugin, with about an 11x11 square of 80x80 block plots densely covered, with some builds here and there spread out around the world.

Using standard Deflate64 settings (64KB dictionary, 32 word size) I got a 208MB archive.

Using standard LZMA settings (16MB dictionary, 32 word size) and a non-solid archive, I got a 148MB archive.

Using the same LZMA settings with a 2GB solid block size (effectively all of it) archive, I got a 67.3MB archive, that's 32.36% of the Zip archive, or 3.84% of the folder that's only Zlib compressed for each chunk.

I'll report back with more stats, and a better test setup tomorrow.

how do i recover a backup if the zipped directories are empty?

Any reason why this plugin failed...

I have it set up in 12 hour rotations to backup the selected worlds, on bootup it says it loads, doesn't throw any errors so I never check to see if it's doing backups. Come today and need a backup because of a java error, and i find out the plugin failed hard...and hasn't backed up any of the worlds since jan. Even though the config says its suppose too.

Why do I only have one backup per day with this config?

intervals:

- 1h

- 4h

- 1d

- 3d

- 4w

- 30w

interval-frequencies:

- 20m

- 30m

- 4h

- 1d

- 5d

- 30d

How can I get the Plugin to backup other folders in my Tekkit server?

I have tried adding the path /buildcraft to the config, however after a server reboot the config file resets itself.

Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks!

Can you make an option so that /sbackup backups all the worlds in the list, instead of just the main worlds and the world you're currently in.

Also an option to disable the automatic backups completely would be cool, I got limited diskspace I don't want to risk anything.

this plugin would be awesome if you could set different backup times for different worlds..

and also rather than a delete schedule, a backup amount limit.. so say keep 6 backups of a world and on the 7th backup, delete the oldest in place of the newest.

Question about the "backup-empty-server"; If my interval is at 1HR, and the last person logs off, leaving the server empty, after 55 mins, the backup that was going to begin in 5 mins will be canceled, and everything players did during those 55 mins will not be backed up.

Is this true? I'm confused on how this works.

Thanks, Caleb

Suggestion:

Support for colors in backup-message, custom-backup-message and custom-backup-message-end setting in the config.yml