Am I on right track to backing up my save?

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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