My server recently had a map restart due to corrupted chunks (http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/server-crashing-chunk-error-please-help.190920/) Last Thursday and I believe the auto restarts I put in place every 3 hours may have caused it. So, I have avoided restarting my server at all for a whole week and just recently restarted it. When I did, different people experienced different degrees of roll back. Some experienced 3 minutes, other an hour. I have no clue why there are mini rollbacks when I restart my server. There are about 50/150 people online on average with about 100/150 on the weekends. Here's some info about my server: AutoAnnouncer Global announcements every few minutes. Release boosCooldowns Shortcuts Release ClearLag Clear your lagg! Release ColouredMotd change the Motd with colours! Release CombatTagInstakill Release CustomServerMessages CustomServerMessages allow you to redefine the Standart Bukkit/M... Inactive Enjin Minecraft Plugin A plugin which allows the enjin servers to communicate with your... Release floAuction Auction plugin for economies. Release GAListener Execute Commands on Votifier Notfications Release HealthBar Release NoCheatPlus Detect and fight the exploitation of various flaws/bugs in Minec... Release NoCraft A plugin that block diamond armor creation Release ObsidianDestroyer Release PvPTimer Prevent new users from being PvPed to death at the start! Release SilkSpawners pick up and move monster spawners using silk touch Release Vault Vault is a Permissions & Economy API to allow plugins to more ea... Mature Votifier A plugin that gets notified when votes are made for the server o... Release I am using Craftbukkit 1.6.4 on my 1.6.4 server. Basically I just need to know why the map rollsback on a restart and how to prevent it. Thanks.
Yay for using one of my plugins Make sure that you are doing /save-all or set up auto saves before you restart.
Agreed. The only time I've seen a data loss, or roll back, is when there were corrupted sectors on the drive. If you type "save-all" into the console, you should see a message that reads "Saved the world" or close to it. If you see anything else in addition to that, you may have bad sectors. An easy way to check is to try the save-all function, if it gives you errors, stop your server and copy your server data to another folder/location (do NOT move, COPY, moving will only change the file pointer meta data, not the physical location!!) and run your server from the new folder. If the save-all function doesn't give you any crap, then you know there is something wrong with the drive. Run a "chkdsk /f /r" (windows) or "sudo /sbin/fsck -t" (Linux), if it is your system drive you will have to reboot to make either of those commands do what they're supposed to do. A little downtime is better than weeks of frustration.
What p0wd3r said is good advice but I noticed in your other thread that you said you have moved the server to a different host and the problem persisted. Has your server ever had a hard crash (either the Minecraft server or the physical box...such as a power outage)? That might have been an event that could have corrupted your world files. The only fix I know of for such an issue is MCEdit from what I have casually read on the net. If it is not a corrupted world, it may just be the procedure you use to shutdown your server. I use a Linux server and utilize crontab to run scripts at various times throughout the day. When I issue a shutdown, I send the following commands to the server: save-all stop When I do an online backup using rsync, I issue the following commands to the server: save-off save-all ** I do my rsync at this point ** save-on LHammonds
LHammonds very true, he may have copied over corrupted data that was marked as good. Check out this thread... https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/how-to-fix-your-world-errors-corrupt-chunks.54254/ It might be useful, if you have eliminated the possibility of HDD errors.
That would spam up the server a ton lol. You can hit the block with a bone to check its durability ;3
