Server Updating - preserve world

[Vovk]

Heya, I am quite a noob at being a server admin, and this is the first time I've performed an update trying to keep a world that's already been generated and played in.


I have a backup of the world (entire server directory), I also have the latest server release.

So far I've tried straight up making a new install of the release and then copying in the world file, ops file and server properties file - but I get this

2012-11-21 06:09:29 [INFO] [Minecraft] Preparing level "FTB-Beta-A"
2012-11-21 06:09:29 [INFO] [STDOUT] Unable to find spawn biome
2012-11-21 06:09:30 [INFO] [ForgeModLoader] Loading dimension 0 (FTB-Beta-A) (hg@659b2647)
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [ForgeModLoader] Loading dimension 7 (FTB-Beta-A) (hg@659b2647)
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [STDOUT] [Portal Gun 1.4.2v0.3] Portal data does not exist for dimension 7!
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [ForgeModLoader] Loading dimension 1 (FTB-Beta-A) (hg@659b2647)
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [STDOUT] [Portal Gun 1.4.2v0.3] Portal data does not exist for dimension 1!
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [ForgeModLoader] Loading dimension -1 (FTB-Beta-A) (hg@659b2647)
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [STDOUT] [Portal Gun 1.4.2v0.3] Portal data does not exist for dimension -1!
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [STDOUT] [Portal Gun 1.4.2v0.3] Portal data does not exist for dimension 0!
2012-11-21 06:09:32 [INFO] [Minecraft] Preparing start region for level 0
2012-11-21 06:09:33 [INFO] [Minecraft] Preparing spawn area: 7%
2012-11-21 06:09:34 [INFO] [Minecraft] Preparing spawn area: 14%
2012-11-21 06:09:35 [INFO] [Minecraft] Preparing spawn area: 24%

And sure enough a new world is spawned instead of the old one and everyone's progress is lost.

Any advice from more experienced admins?

 

[Greedseed]

its creating a new world. The portal errors is nothing to wurry about. Make sure your world name is the one as sat in the config

 

[betrunkenaffe]

I renamed my world when I first made it so I could be 100% sure which world is being used.

The folder named "world" (likely) is where your world is located, the files in there contain all the details of it. server.properties has a line that dictates what the world is called and thereby which folder will be looked at. So if you name the world "HappyLand" then when you start up server, it will generate folder "HappyLand" which contains all the world information.

If you just want to backup world, just backup that folder, you don't need all the rest... That said, best to back it all up before an upgrade in case your world doesn't work AFTER the upgrade

 

[b0bst3r]

So far I've tried straight up making a new install of the release and then copying in the world file, ops file and server properties file - but I get this

Not sure if that was just a typo but your world is stored in an entire folder which you need to copy all the folder back.

Basically if your server.properties has a level-name=myworld then a folder would be created called myworld from the main server folder.

You need to alter server.properties, level-name back to what you previously called your world and then copy the whole folder back over.

 

[Vovk]

Cheers, yeah the name of the world was the issue. It was changed from the previous version's "world" to this versions "FTB-Beta-A" in the new server properties file.

and yes, I did mean folder lol. I wrote that at 4 in the morning

 

[T3ddyTo4ster]

Im hijacking this thread then since Vovk will probably get the same problem as me.
Downloaded the new update, copied in my old world and changed server properties to match level name.
Server started fine and i the world is right but then i ran into problems.

All my mystcraft worlds have changed properties, so my old safe bee myst world now have nausea and blindness. And my factory and quarry myst world is suffering from meteors.
Is there anyway to fix this? do i need to copy more files than just the world folder to get my old settings back? or can i manually edit the myst world properties

 

[b0bst3r]

As far as I can tell all the myst worlds are in your server's world folder, I can't see why that's happened at all.

 

[T3ddyTo4ster]

solved it for now with /myst-toggleworldinstability on the affected ages.