Revert to previous server version

[awesomejt]

It would be nice to be able to revert to a previous server version. This recently became needed since BDS is pushing out "future" updates which have no corresponding client. This basically makes BDS unplayable until The Wild Update is released. I still have my 1.18 zip in my downloads, so it would be nice if the script could offer a "revert" feature.

[TheRemote]

Normally I'd say this wouldn't be possible but you phrased this just right. It would be possible to back up the previous version from an update. This could be stored in the "downloads" folder or could even just be bedrock_server.bak as the previous version.

I will keep this open and investigate this but I think I can manage this and that it sounds like a good idea. Microsoft does leave people in a bad spot on this quite often. I'm not sure if their build servers aren't synced up quite right or if someone actually changes it or what it is but yeah I could definitely see the practical use of this.

I will investigate!

[starkey-01]

Just encountered this issue also. The Minecraft Dedicated Server page states it is only serving up the Wild beta however the download URLs are still available if you look up the long version number. For example Minecraft 1.18.33.02.

https://minecraft.azureedge.net/bin-linux/bedrock-server-1.18.33.02.zip https://minecraft.azureedge.net/bin-win/bedrock-server-1.18.33.02.zip

Could allow the user to input the URL or version number if this URL stays consistent.

[TheRemote]

That's a great trick. I'll post this on my blog too for people who want to try this!

[dbroome1978]

Did this work for you? I updated the DownloadURL and DownloadFile in the start script. It downloaded and extracted bedrock-server-1.18.33.02.zip. But when I run screen - it still shows the beta runing

[awesomejt]

Thanks, I would have just submitted a PR, but I just didn't have the time and I wasn't sure if you were open to contributions.

[TheRemote]

Hey dbroome,

Most likely it's replacing your manual extraction. You would want to disable the update check temporarily for this as it's probably replacing your manual extraction.

The script will support this as yes it's a bit of a pain to do manually since there's never really been too much of a need for it (at least not longer than a few hours or maybe a day was the previous record which has been shattered by this event).

I'm just pretty sure that even if I finish it today this is probably just going to be fixed and no later than tomorrow as that is the last day of the conference.

Thanks everyone for working on this and bearing with me!

[dbroome1978]

That did it. Thank you

[starkey-01]

For future users with the same issue, I just ran these three steps from start.sh inside the servername folder and replaced $DownloadFile $DownloadURL, dirname and servername.

The scripts won't reinstall the latest version if it is already in the downloads folder until a newer version is available so this would have be repeated when they release the next version. The other issue #122 around automatic updates should resolve this.

curl -H "Accept-Encoding: identity" -H "Accept-Language: en" -L -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.$RandNum.212 Safari/537.36" -o "downloads/$DownloadFile" "$DownloadURL" 
unzip -o "downloads/$DownloadFile" -x "*server.properties*" "*permissions.json*" "*whitelist.json*" "*valid_known_packs.json*" "*allowlist.json*" 
Permissions=$(chmod u+x dirname/minecraftbe/servername/bedrock_server >/dev/null)

[TheRemote]

Added with PR #124 (thanks smallsam!)