Wrapper around a Minecraft server process, designed to automate backups.

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Alex

Alex is a wrapper around a typical Minecraft server process. It acts as the parent process, and sits in between the user's input and the server's stdin. This allows Alex to support additional commands that execute Rust code.

Why

The primary usecase for this is backups. A common problem I've had with Minecraft backups is that they fail, because the server is writing to one of the region files as the backup is being created. Alex solves this be sending save-off and save-all to the server, before creating the tarball. Afterwards, saving is enabled again with save-on.

Features

Create safe backups as gzip-compressed tarballs using the backup command
Automatically create backups periodically
Properly configures the process (working directory, optimisation flags)
Configure everything as CLI arguments or environment variables

Installation

Alex is distributed as statically compiled binaries for Linux amd64 and arm64. These can be found here.