Crashes/Restarts make people lose data

[CreeperInside]

Over the past week or so, I've noticed that every time i restart the server, my players get rolled back until the last backup, unless i did the save-all command. Shouldn't the map be automatically saving 24/7? Not just every 30 minutes? I don't mean a backup, just the map is continually be written. This is an inconvenience if a plugin or the server randomly crashes. Is there any way to fix this problem?
Thanks.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

We used mymcadmin and it saves every couple minutes.
You should see it saving in the console if you have access.

I did read on the forum from where I got my control panel,
that this same thing happens on hard stops or resets.

[Vanderburg]

Minecraft does not constantly save chunk data. This is just how the game is made. We talk more about it here: http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =69&t=6598

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Probably a plugin available for saving every x mins.

[CreeperInside]

Is there a way to set it in the control panel that my server saves every 4-5 minutes (saves not backs up). Btw, can you set up MyMCAdmin on a normal hosted server or do you need a VDS?

[TimeX]

There isn't a way to adjust the save interval, a plugin would be needed for that.

MyMCAdmin is a server wrapper that would have to replace ours, so it is only possible here with an unmanaged VDS or unmanaged full machine.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

This looks like what your looking for:

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/autosave/?page=2

It was last updated 10 days ago, but appears for ver. 1.0.1, but will probably still work with the latest ver. of minecraft.

[Vanderburg]

Also, because saves are on a separate thread now (Read: no save lag), you can save more frequently. Instead of these 15-30 minute saves from before, you can get away with every 5 minutes.