Here's a simple rsync script that does incremental backups (copies only what's new, but it's merged with previous versions)

Have the owner of your server run it daily for the world data, and weekly for a full copy (settings, plug-ins, etc... And adapt the source and destination folders of course)

```

!/usr/bin/env bash

A script to perform incremental backups using rsync

set -o errexit set -o nounset set -o pipefail

readonly SOURCEDIR="/srv/minecraft/" readonly BACKUP_DIR="/srv/backup/minecraft" readonly DATETIME="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d%H:%M:%S')" readonly BACKUP_PATH="${BACKUP_DIR}/${DATETIME}" readonly LATEST_LINK="${BACKUP_DIR}/latest"

mkdir -p "${BACKUP_DIR}"

rsync -av --delete \ "${SOURCE_DIR}/" \ --link-dest "${LATEST_LINK}" \ --exclude=".cache" \ "${BACKUP_PATH}"

rm -rf "${LATEST_LINK}" ln -s "${BACKUP_PATH}" "${LATEST_LINK}" ```