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Minecraft
Topic Started: Wednesday Dec 8 2010, 01:25 PM (11,329 Views)
JAMSIN
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Yeah i did see it kept adding a byte of size changes to a file in the world folder.

I'll see how it goes anyway, be interested to see how the Mac handles MC and Java compared to PC.
I never use the iMac much these days since it was for my graphics job at the time, now its just a music machine to play in the background while gaming on my PC.



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Another thought... what about using DropBox Cloud based backup service?
You could put the MC game files and world files inside the dropbox directory on your pc/mac and each change it makes it auto uploads to the cloud.

I've used this between all Mac's at home for backing up minor files to have access between all of the machines and it works great.

This might be a way to have it auto backup - though it would be constantly uploading the file(s) that were changing each time.


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That's a thought... Does it have point in time restores?

I did think of doing that before with my Samsung external since it's software is on the fly as well, but then it doesn't become very portable, does it? ^o) A cloud solution with the obvious options would do the trick, but that could effectively double my net usage and reduce bandwidth to play on.
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I do not understand the last dozen posts at all.

Is this jammer server the new world? I don't want to play on it if it's just temporary.
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what does it matter if its only temporary Wolf? Your places always burn down at one time or another :P
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what does it matter if its only temporary Wolf? Your places always burn down at one time or another :P
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Too soon.
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Monday Sep 26 2011, 03:02 PM
That's a thought... Does it have point in time restores?

I did think of doing that before with my Samsung external since it's software is on the fly as well, but then it doesn't become very portable, does it? ^o) A cloud solution with the obvious options would do the trick, but that could effectively double my net usage and reduce bandwidth to play on.
I think it just updates as the file is changed.. like when I've opened a file and saved it, I notice the animated icon uploading the file once I've hit file > save or whatever the file is Im editing/using.

So I guess with regards to mine craft it might actually constantly be uploading a few kb's in a file each minute or second that the file is being changed perhaps.

If its only the odd minor file that its updating/uploading it shouldn't affect bandwidth too much if any, but if its uploading the entire MC directory/world and that perhaps.

But I think it only modifies one or two files and the only one I see thats updating constantly is level.dat and level.dat_old constantly.
according to the time stamps there is one or two others (in the regions folders) but those may update when people are in the server or doing something I guess... since no-ones on, the level.dat file is the only one I see fluctuating each second or so as it changes the file size up and down.

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Is this jammer server the new world? I don't want to play on it if it's just temporary.

Its alright, Ill switch it off, I wasn't too bothered about hosting a server anyway.
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So when the world gets corrupted, it keeps backup up those changed files so the backup gets corrupted to.

See, amongst all this farting around, I decided a while ago that the slight inconvenience of dropping the server for a minute to get a guaranteed working backup was far more reliable and easy than anything else. I've just been doing it manually when no one is on to avoid inconvenience.

If I simply automate the server going down and backing up to run at say 3am and 3pm every day, would everyone be happy with that? That should reduce loss of game time down to a few hours if it corrupts again, and the backups can be guaranteed.
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Isn't there a script that auto shuts it down and backs it up?


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Cool I play from 3:01 to 2:59 then. ;)
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Notch needs to get off his lazy pimping millionaire ass and implement proper save states for the server client, seeing as how multiplayer minecraft is what made his millions in the first place. Users shouldn't have to dick around with all this ex-party stuff to play the game and not have it lose it's shit periodically...
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Not rushing you at all bro, but what time frame are you thinking for the re roll? Just want to know when to start looking for it. Thanks for all this.
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1.9 is out for testing.
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was a few days ago, but i pretty much just play this multi now, dont even bother with single
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Maybe we should wait for 1.9 official release for the re roll?
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Monday Sep 26 2011, 11:43 PM
Maybe we should wait for 1.9 official release for the re roll?
we may not need to reroll
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Why?

I thought we lost the world?
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The world "MAY" be fixable
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