Will my Minecraft Server progress be wiped if I use a new hard drive?

I currently have an older Mac computer with a small hard drive. I recently purchased a new drive, and I am moving everything over by way of a dual-bay drive docking station.

However, I'm concerned about my progress on servers. Would they be wiped by this, or will they be safe?

Best Answer

Your hard drive should store no information about your server profiles, except for some metadata, like the server's IP and your user information (if it has been saved).

As long as you log in to the same account after you switch hard drives, your servers list may be empty but the servers themselves will still have record of your existence.

However, your singleplayer worlds and other things will be wiped in the process, so make sure you have them backed up.

If you want to be completely safe and be 100% certain everything makes it over (including your IP list, singleplayer worlds, and settings), you can just copy your Minecraft home folder. Instructions:

Open a Finder window
Press the key combination Shift+Command+G
Paste this exact text into the box: ~/Library/Application Support
Look for a folder named minecraft, and copy it to a thumb drive.

Note: If you don't have enough space in the thumb drive, you may ignore the assets folder.

To restore your Minecraft data, run the Launcher once on the new hard drive, and then follow steps 1 to 3 above. This time, copy the minecraft folder BACK to the Application Support window you have open.

Alternatively, if you're just directly cloning the drives or doing a copy/paste of your user data directly, your Minecraft save folder will still make it. It's still better to be sure, though.

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Can you transfer a server Minecraft?

You just need to transfer the folder from the first server to another server. If you will switch ips by connecting to another internet then problems might occur like: the first ip not working, The second ip not being setten up.

Can you recover a Minecraft server?

Head to the Game Panel and stop the server. To the left of the game panel, click on the \u201cBackup\u201d tab. Locate which world/date you want to restore and press \u201cRestore\u201d to the right of it.

Where is server data stored Minecraft?

The file is located in the root of the directory specified in the launcher profile. By default, this would be . minecraft\\servers. dat.

How do I backup my Minecraft server data?

Creating a Backup using the Control Panel

On the Backup page, click Start.

A message will appear when the control panel is done creating a backup.

If you want to download a copy of this backup, access the server through an FTP client such as FileZilla.

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Answer 2

As stated in the comments by Kaizerwolf and ChaseC, all of your player data and changes made on a server are stored on that server. This is true for both mac and pc client versions of minecraft. In fact, you could download minecraft on a new computer, and as long as you use the same player account, all of your server progress will be retained (as long as the server is up and running). Doing this may or may not cause problems for single player maps, but your multiplayer progress will be unaffected.

Answer 3

Your data on the servers won't be deleted as long as you use the same account.

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