This plugin is designed to allow you to simply set a time to have the server shut down at the same time every day, without any manual intervention, and provide users ample warning before it does so. You should use a script to automatically restart the server when it stops. In that script, you could perform any backups or other maintenance you'd like to perform. I use this plugin to keep a server healthy for longer than a few days by pre-emptively restarting it before it can get sick. THIS PLUGIN IS ON BukkitDev Features: Time can be set persistently in the configuration file. Multiple times can be specified. Shutdown time can be set temporarily via commands You can cancel the running shutdown. You can view the current scheduled shutdown time. You can gracefully stop the server with a configurable grace time. The warning message times are configurable. All connected users can be kicked from the server before the shutdown. Example Restart Script Windows Code: :begin "c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin\java.exe" -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M -jar craftbukkit-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar goto begin UNIX Code: #!/bin/bash while true do echo starting minecraft server ... java -Xms1024M -Xmx4096M -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui echo sleeping ... # Do backups or something useful here sleep 5 done DOWNLOAD IS ON BukkitDev MPORTANT NOTE By the way the kick reason does not work currently for 2.3!!! I don't code java, so... If you code java and you want to help drop me a PM and we can work together... All credit goes to chromerium who created the mod and I'm just here to post a compatible version for 1.3.1