Manifest v4! This is... big.

[HeatherComputer]

Manifest V4 has a few changes planned, yet these will be a LOT of work:

• Vastly improve backup preparation times ( Issues with backup preparation times #78 )

• Change the backup strategy, so a backup root is treated as the server / instance root rather than the world root

  • By default, this won't change much - other than where you have to extract a backup to.
  • It'll however allow for some new features, which will be described below.
  • This of course does require some heavy changes to the automated backup restoration, which is part of why this is happening before the gui is made.

• Add a file whitelist feature. This will work as such:

  • Files on the whitelist will be added to the backup.
  • The existing blacklist feature will take priority - that is, if you whitelist the entire config folder, but blacklist a specific config file, then all configs except that file will be backed up.
  • The default whitelist will be the world's own folder, with a wildcard at the end - this will allow for setups that separate each dimension into their own folder to be backed up correctly.
  • A placeholder will be usable here and in the blacklist - ?{worldfolder}* would be the syntax for the above point. You could, say, blacklist ?{worldfolder}/level.dat to prevent the world's level.dat from being backed up.

[HeatherComputer]

And a little showcase of the whitelist feature working nicely