Scheduling

You can schedule backups to run automatically when the world shuts down or auto-saves.

Backing up on shutdown

Backups can be run whenever the world shuts down (i.e., when exiting a single-player world or shutting down a dedicated server). To do this,

/backup set shutdown-action [action]

Where [action] is one of

Action	Use
local	Backs up locally only. Like /backup local
full	Back up locally and upload. Like /backup full
full-gc	Do a full backup followed by a prune and gc to reclaim disk space. This might slow your game down if scheduled during autosaves.
none	Don’t do anything

Backing up while the game is running

You can also set backups to run while the game is playing, immediately after the regular auto-saves that Minecraft performs every 5 minutes. To do this,

/backup set autoback-action [action]

Where [action] is one of the actions listed above.

If you don’t want autoback backups to run every 5 minutes, you can schedule them to run less-frequently:

/backup set autoback-wait [minutes]

This sets the minimum wait time between auto-backups.

So, for example, setting [minutes] to 120 will cause backups to run roughly every two hours; the exact timing will depend on when the next autosave runs.