Slight problems... with files.

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I’m having files problems… let me explain:
I rent a game server, while a server company hosts it for me. I have 100% access to the server’s files and settings.
In this [building] game (a.k.a. Minecraft), people destroy things, and it’s not too nice.
Now, I backup my “world” with software on the server, but this “software” has a few problems. It doesn’t restore the backup, since I’m on a mac and the [restore] software doesn’t work for me, while it is backing up my world in different files… :frowning:

This is an example of how the world directory in the game is:
“World”/(a letter and a number)/(another folder with a letter and a number)/“dat-”(letter)“-”(number)“.dat” --all in folders, making it a huge directory tree
The quotes mean the actual file name, and the slashes show that they are folders.

This is an example of how the backup software backups the world NOTE: It’s all in files:
“world(a letter and a number)(a letter and a number)\dat-(letter)-(number).dat” --all as 1 file, making NO FOLDERS

If you need examples to help me do this, I’d give the world files to you. Trying to back up the world is important as that the people that come on the server donate money, and that helps me host it… so if you can help me start a script, you’d help a lot.

#2

Tell us a lot more about the server and its operating system.

#3

As that doesn’t really matter. I’ll be altering the world files on my mac, I’ll be downloading them to my Downloads folder.

But, the OS of the server is windows-based. The server software is off java, same as the game client, off java.
Users connect to the server by putting the server’s IP into a field and it connects to the server software. In the game, the chat (which people, plugins, and other things) communicate with other users.

Plugins are java based scripts that do things. For example, in the game you want to insert a system for money, pay people to do jobs, ect., you’d install iConomy to the server.