Backcraft

Any Minecraft player knows that you can easily put hundreds of hours into the game, and losing your progress and all the things you have built is far from ideal. Thankfully, you can take advantage of specialized utilities to ensure you don’t lose anything important.

Backcraft is a lightweight, open-source application that can create regular backups of your Minecraft folder, providing you with a fail-safe if the worst should happen. It is very easy to configure and runs quietly in the system tray.

Once you’ve download the application, you can launch it instantly, as it is not necessary to install anything. Of course, Minecraft and 7zip need to be available on your PC in order to perform any backups.

Adding the paths to your Minecraft and 7zip folder should be simple, especially if they have been installed in the default locations, and the program will be minimized to the system tray automatically once you save your settings.

Backcraft can perform backups of your resource packs, launcher profiles, screenshots, options and saves, and you can set the backup interval to any value between 5 and 60 minutes.

After setting everything up, you can minimize the program to the system tray and get on with your game. Backups will only be performed while Minecraft is open, so your hard drive won’t be filled up with useless data.

If you prefer to handle everything yourself, you can even disable the auto backup feature and save the contents of your Minecraft folder manually at any time.

Backcraft is a relatively simple and well-designed application that makes it remarkably easy to create backups of your Minecraft folder. You can set it up in seconds, and it runs in the background without getting in your way.