I ran into issues attempting to stop the server automatically to do backups. Those issues could be fixed, but our Glorious Benefactor (sometimes also known as Leon) is already doing nightly backups of the whole Minecraft directory with the server running, so we went down a different path. Here are the details:
At 2:00 AM, the Glorious Benefactor (aka Leon) will backup Minecraft
At 5:00 AM, the day/night maps will be generated
The server will be running during both of these events. You might experience lag during the backup. You *will* experience lag during map generation. I don't think the backup would take more than 5-10 minutes. The map generation may take 10-15. It runs slower when the MC server is also consuming resources.
In other news, sandstone currently does not show on the map, and you may have noticed the market only shows white wool. Sean recently found that someone else has picked up the Cartograph utility and updated it for beta, so the next bit of server improvement will be attempting to upgrade our mapping utility to "Cartograph G".
It *might* even be completed at the time of this post! (Oh, the excitement!) Brief impression while watching it run is it may take even longer to render. So, the server might be largely unavailable for 20 minutes or so.
I see new stuffs!
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