Ok, this might be a newbie question, but there is a way to store the players data (/World/players) and the folder Userdata (from essentials, /plugins/Essentials/userdata) in a mysql database? Instead of creating a file each time a user connects to the server? I have around 1000 files in both folders, total 2000 files. Making a back-up to the entire server is a pain, takes a lot of time, not the size is the problem, but the number of files. I want to know if there is a way to store them in a mysql database or if there is a way to remove them if the user doesn't come online in an X amount of days. Thanks Ps: Also, if you would like to enlighten me, of what them files do, I mean I know essentials stores the last location, last time the player logged in and logged out, but unsure of that the files in world/players are.
i know in the players files in the world folder saves info about inventory location/rotation/world when you logged out xp food bar thingy your gamemode whats in your enderchest basically everything ... and im pretty sure this cannot be moved to a database, nor do you want to move it, as when a player joins it will first have to get all the info from the database, and that will increase the time you need to login essentials ... i dont know if you can move this, i suggest that you look in the config for the plugin and see if there's some way to make it save in a database as for deleting the files, if you delete a file, the next time the player joins, he will be at spawn with no inventory just like if he joined the server for the first time, but some plugins (like a plugin to give starter items) will have its own database remembering that the players has been online before and not will give the items again. so i would not recommend that you delete the files, or if you still want to, you can try to find a plugin that can clean up for you as for backup ... just dont backup those 2 folders ... players can easily recover form a lost inventory
