Scheduler backing up to never lose anything !

Useful Saves, a simple, commands only, mod to create scheduled backup of your world or extras files

Not mandatory on the client, it could be only installed on the server !

Features

Scheduled saves
Instant backup
Delete backup
Cleaning backup folder
Crontab helper command

Config

Commands

Useful Saves’s command prefix are always /useful-saves

- Deletions commands

/useful-saves clear-backups-folder
Clear save files from backup folder

/useful-saves delete
Delete a specified save file from backup folder

/useful-saves confirm [yes/no]
Confirm previous deletion

- Scheduling commands

/useful-saves schedule stop/pause/resume
To stop, pause or resume the current running task

/useful-saves schedule cron [<expression>]
To schedule backup task, based on crontab expression

Optional parameters

/useful-saves schedule cron [<expression>] [<TimeZone>]
To schedule backup task, based on crontab expression, but by defining a time zone if the server clock/locale differ from user contry

/useful-saves schedule cron [<expression>] [flush]
flush backup file. (force writting data)

- Utilitary commands

/useful-saves schedule restart
Restart the scheduler system in case of any crash or shutdown

/useful-saves save-now
Launch an instant backup

/useful-saves info
Informations of the actual state of the scheduler

- Config commands

/useful-saves config backupFolder
Define a folder to store saves

/useful-saves config deleteOldOnMaximumReach
Delete oldest save if maximum backups reached

/useful-saves config enableTaskOnServerStart
Starting scheduled task on server start

/useful-saves config maximum-backups
Set the number of backups the server keeps

/useful-saves config printChatMessage
Display or not infos to all players

/useful-saves config saveIfServerEmpty
Enable saves if server has no players connected

/useful-saves config timeZone
Define a time zone if the server clock/locale differ from user contry

Crontab Helper command

Useful Saves are packaged with an human interpreter for cron expression
Thanks to cronexpressiondescriptor.azurewebsites.net

/cron [<expression>]
Get a human readable version of the cron expression

/cron [<expression>] [<locale>]
Get a human readable version of the cron expression, but in user language

Example: /cron "*** * * ? * ***" fr-FR
Output: Toutes les secondes

Resources packs or Mods packs maker ?

If you don't want Useful Save installed on the client, but only on the server it's possible !

But bring translations files for printted messages in tchat !

Download the translations pack of "Useful Save" !

Useful links

If you are not familiar with crontab let’s check Cron Expression Generator for Quartz !

Technologies used

Modpacks permission

Originally designed to never lose anything on huge modpacks servers !

Yeah, include it in modpacks if you want !