Am I on right track to backing up my save?

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Padfoote

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Yes, that sounds correct. I would backup the entire saves fodder, however, due to the Mapwriter information that is also stored there.
 
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My FTB is saved on my SSD for speed.

My backupfolder is saved on my HDD. I have a folder in my HDD containing 1-2 temporally ordered backups. Additionally there is a shortcut in that folder to my FTB saves folder, contained in my SSD.

To do backups, I could create a script. What I do is go into my HDD backup folder, go through shortcut, copy the world, press back, paste the world. Then I change the name to the current date.

Happy backups.
 
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I have two shortcuts, one to this folder:

C:\FeedTheBeast\Monster\minecraft\saves

which is where the folder is that contains my "World" files.

The other shortcut is to my "archive" folder where I keep all my minecraft stuff on another hard drive.

Every hour or so I quit FTB, I pop up the world folder, copy it, and paste it into the "archive" folder. Then I go back into Minecraft and keep playing. When I die and lose my stuff, I delete the FTB world folder and copy my archived backup into the same place. The most gameplay I ever lose is one hour.

Edit: Yeah I wish I knew how to do this automatically with a script, but I'm clueless at computing nowadays and have no interest in re-learning it all at this point.
 
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namiasdf

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You don't need to quit MC to backup. Also understand that FTB autosaves when you pause the game, or enter into your inventory.

Well, it would be to create a script that utilizes console commands. Create it in notepad, convert to .exe, bam. There is some other scripting method that I used in school, totally forgot.
 
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namiasdf said:
You don't need to quit MC to backup. Also understand that FTB autosaves when you pause the game, or enter into your inventory.

Well, it would be to create a script that utilizes console commands. Create it in notepad, convert to .exe, bam. There is some other scripting method that I used in school, totally forgot.
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Interesting, I always quit the game just to be sure there are no files "locked" or "active" or "in progress". Better safe than sorry. But good to know, thanks for info.

Auto-save won't help me. When I die in lava and lose all my tools, I certainly do NOT want an "auto-save"! I want to return to a point in time in the past, before I lost everything. Yeah, I cheat, but it's my game and my world, right? :)

I knew you could do that scripting with .bat (batch) files, but to my knowledge you can't just rename a text file to .exe and expect it to run. That's where I get lost, programming passed me by at some point in life and I just don't care to keep up with it anymore.
 
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namiasdf

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Hmm, copying shouldn't be that big a deal. Your computer takes a snapshot of the files and then rewrites them. FTB load times are dumb as fuck.

Yeah, batch files. Heh.
 
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