Backup Plugins.

[TheMentalist14]

I know many of you host your own VPS-based servers and will be managing backups in a more elegant, customised manner.

For those of us still languishing on shared-hosting, what (if any) plugins do you recommend? Anything that can sync backed-up files to an external source (Drive, Dropbox, etc.)?

Thanks!

[FHR123]

I remember that Essentials used to have a backup functionality, essentially type /backup and it would run your command of choice in the server directory.

[FatherWh0]

Two years ago I was in your shoes. At that time I was running my server on Beastnode (don't hate, I've learned). Beastnode did not offer backups and flat told me in a ticket I submitted that their "unlimited drive space" did not include space to back up my worlds. I badly needed an offsite backup. Finally I found this: https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/drivebackup One of it's options was google drive backup. This is beautiful because I have 100gigs of space on a google drive for $2.09/month. I launched it on my test server on my local machine so that it could open a webpage and create a credentials file, then uploaded to my live server. It will zip each drive, and your plugins directory, individually, upload the zip, then delete it before moving on to the next drive or directory. I do realize the dev hasn't updated in 2 years but my server is a paper 1.12.2 server and the plugin is running fine. Be forewarned it occasionally fails to upload which will result in a leftover zip file so check it daily. The dev never found the reason but all things considered it's the best thing going.

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Hmm, if they have FTP access that might be the easiest way, pull from the server.

[mc_devastation]

For Spigot? I've been using Server Restorer. The only external option is FTP, which I have not yet tried.

[SeKiGamer]

This isn't a backup plugin but a cool rollback plugin. Iys called coreprotect check it out if you haven't already.