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+# ExtBackup
+Minimal Minecraft backup mod, relying on external backup tools.
+
+## Why?
+The regular well know backup mods lack the sophistication of dedicated backup tools.
+
+ExtBackup does not care about storage, retention, rotating old backups, freeing up space or any of that stuff.
+All it does is save the world to disk and then call a script or program on a configurabe schedule. The external
+program can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Connect your miecraft to borg, restic, Veeam or
+whatever you like and backup your worlds however you like.
+
+## Target audience
+ExtBackup is aimed at server owners. It's so far only tested on Linux and does not offer much configuarion. It just runs
+the program with the Minecraft directory as current working directory. It may well work on Windows, or it may not.
+
+## Acknowledgements
+* [LatvianModder](https://github.com/LatvianModder) for his work on [FTB-Baackups](https://github.com/FTBTeam/FTB-Backups) 
+  where I stole a lot of the code for this.
+* [alexbobp](https://github.com/alexbobp) and the [elytra](https://github.com/elytra) group for 
+  [BTFU](https://github.com/elytra/BTFU), which gave me the idea but didn't go quite far enough.