Java Minecraft Archiver

This is a little utility i have been writing to help me manage my minecraft saves between computers.

I was just using the trick where you use mklink (on windows) or just symlinks on linux to link my .minecraft directory to my Dropbox folder, but Dropbox completely chokes on tons of small files, and minecraft saves have many thousands of tiny small files. Also, when dropbox encountered a conflict , it does not tell you about it and simply renames the old file, and tries to merge it or something and as a result you get a nasty chunk error in your world.

So the idea came to light. I know there are tons of minecraft backup utilties , such as the ones here , but i noticed not many of them ran on all 3 major OSes, windows/mac/linux, so I assume that maybe someone else would appreciate if I shared my little program with the rest of the world.

Download:

https://launchpad.net/jra/+download

Source Code:

https://launchpad.net/jra

Features:

• compresses entire saves folder to a .tar.gz archive and places it in the specified directory

Future Features:

• restore backups to the saves folder
• have different revisions of backups, choose which one to restore
• have a set number of revisions to store before deleting old ones
• generating map images
• backup comments
• chunk repairing using chunks from old save files
• and any more that I can think of

Screenshots:

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