Minecraft server startup script

start.sh

#!/bin/bash

#Has to be run from within server files
#(because of how the server itself works)

if pgrep -x "world_backup.sh" > /dev/null
then
        echo "Backup script already running"
else
        echo "Starting backup script"
        world_backup.sh &
fi

while true
do
        echo Starting server...
        java -Xms1G -Xmx2G -jar paperclip-504.jar
        echo Restarting in 5 seconds...
        sleep 5
done

world_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

WORLD_DIRECTORY=/home/rein/Paper/world
BACKUP_DIRECTORY=${WORLD_DIRECTORY}_backup

while true
do
        cp -r ${WORLD_DIRECTORY} ${BACKUP_DIRECTORY}
        sleep  300
done