MicLieg commented 4 months ago

Description

This pull request changes the creation of a backup to use pigz to reduce compression times by parallelizing compression. To do that pigz was added to the dependencies.

Backup times on i7-13700K bare metal server

Default Backup

Small Minecraft Server (117 MB) took ~ 5 seconds

user@hostmachine:~/minecraft$ time ./mcserver backup
[ INFO ] Backing up mcserver: Starting backup: No previous backups found
[  OK  ] Backing up mcserver: Completed: mcserver-2024-02-25-163835.tar.gz, total size 107M
core_exit.sh exiting with code: 4

real    0m5,122s

Big Minecraft Server (18 GB) took ~ 285 seconds (4 minutes 45 seconds)

user@hostmachine:~/minecraft$ time ./mcserver backup
[ INFO ] Backing up mcserver: Starting backup: No previous backups found
[  OK  ] Backing up mcserver: Completed: mcserver-2024-02-25-165601.tar.gz, total size 15G
core_exit.sh exiting with code: 4

real    4m44,821s

Parallel Backup

Small Minecraft Server (117 MB) took ~ 3 seconds

user@hostmachine:~/minecraft$ time ./mcserver backup
[ INFO ] Backing up mcserver: Starting backup: No previous backups found
[  OK  ] Backing up mcserver: Completed: mcserver-2024-02-25-164608.tar.gz, total size 107M
core_exit.sh exiting with code: 4

real    0m3,197s

Big Minecraft Server (18 GB) took ~ 23 seconds

user@hostmachine:~/minecraft$ time ./mcserver backup
[ INFO ] Backing up mcserver: Starting backup: No previous backups found
[  OK  ] Backing up mcserver: Completed: mcserver-2024-02-25-170138.tar.gz, total size 15G
core_exit.sh exiting with code: 4

real    0m23,154s

Fixes #3422

Type of change

[x] Bug fix (a change which fixes an issue).
[x] New feature (a change which adds functionality).
[ ] New Server (new server added).
[ ] Refactor (restructures existing code).
[ ] Comment update (typo, spelling, explanation, examples, etc).

Checklist

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[x] This pull request links to an issue.
[x] This pull request uses the develop branch as its base.
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[x] This code follows the style guidelines of this project.
[x] I have performed a self-review of my code.
[x] I have checked that this code is commented where required.
[x] I have provided a detailed enough description of this PR.
[x] I have checked if documentation needs updating.

Documentation

If documentation does need updating either update it by creating a PR (preferred) or request a documentation update.

User docs: https://github.com/GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM-Docs
Dev docs: https://github.com/GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM-Dev-Docs

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