Backup-and-cleanup-Minecraft-Worlds

This was created to back up the backups created by MSM (in the form of daily generated ZIP files), while keeping a select few of them locally. These ZIP files tend to be fairly large (ranging from a few hundred MB to multiple GB), so this script (upload_and_clean_backups.py) was created to avoid backing up / keeping every single ZIP file, but only the ones that contain notable changes (determined by file size difference).

Setup

Create a local_settings.py file in the same folder as settings.py, and define the following variables:

• DRIVE_FOLDER_ID: the ID of the Google Drive folder you want the backed up files uploaded to, as a string
• WORLD_BACKUPS_FOLDER: a path to the folder containing the world backup files, as a Path object

Also review the settings in settings.py, in case you want to customize any of the other settings (by defining them in local_settings.py), like the command used for uploading the backup files (which by default uses the Bash script in the Backup-to-Drive repo).

Usage

Run the script like this:

python upload_and_clean_backups.py