My computer died and corrupted my world, RIP

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A moment of silence for spaghetti world.

Time to make another one!

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Still a spot open on the server. ;]

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R.I.P.

I had a similar experience when my MC crashed and some chunks got corrupted, I guess. I lowered chunk render distance to the minimum and just walked away from that place that caused the game to crash.

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That’s a shame. Backups are important!

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That was the moment I started to make backups.

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I’ve been pretty successful server side with having the game run from SSD, and then triggering a 15 minute backup to the RAID array. Thus if the server every crashes, it auto-rolls back 15 minutes. I haven’t had a fully corrupted save in quite some time.

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Losing is Fun!.. at least sometimes it is.

The more important Question is, how did you Computer die? Power Outage and the Savegame corrupted?

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My girlfriend sat on the power cord and I didn’t realized it unplugged my laptop lol

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Uhm, the way Minecraft does rolling saves might end up causing you to have corrupt backups.

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Nope. I don’t use the Minecraft method. Cron job triggers to turn save off, rsync back to RAID, save on. If the SSD running files crash, they are overwritten on startup.

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Ah right Servers can turn off Autosave, good that you thought of that. So your saves wont be corrupted THAT often. It can still happen for other reasons though so keep a few backups around.

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Of course! There’s a rolling snapshot on RAID (ZFS), plus the daily archive. I take data preservation very seriously.

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Is there like a mod for doing backups that you guys recommend? Accidents happen!

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I do it manually sometimes.

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FTBLib can do autobackups. I keep trying to disable them! =]

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Change your Minecraft Launcher Shortcut to automatically copy your Save Files to a Timestamped Backup Location of your choice. That way whenever you launch MC, you automatically backup your Saves!

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That’s a good idea.

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That sounds great! I’m not the most computer literate, how do I go about doing this?

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Okay uhhh you use Windoofz right?

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I have no idea what that is.

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