Start minecraft from an existing backup

start_from_backup.sh

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install htop unzip
sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-7-jre

# either get it from a public dropbox:
#   wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/123456/myBackup.tar.gz
# or curl it from your FTP server
#   curl --user user:pass ftp://myFtpServer.com/mc/myBackup.tar.gz -o bkp.tar.gz

tar -xzvf bkp*
rm bkp*
cd minecraft

# change that to minecraft in case you are not using bukkit
screen -S mcserver -dm bash -c "java -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar"