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I understand this is an experimental feature for the headless Linux server. Is there a way to use experimental non-blocking saves, but then do a blocking (safer) save once an hour or at a scheduled interval? Our megabase map is starting to take a long time for save and I would be interested in using this feature, but concerned about the potential of corruption.

To reply to myself after some experimentation, I have found the following:

- The server can be configured to use non-blocking autosave, and this saves nicely and consistently.

- I can send "/save" to the server process on standard IN (ie: the console) and it will do a BLOCKING save to the original save file.

This means I have a method I can use to do a routine blocking save for safety every few hours, and leverage a more frequent non-blocking save every 15 minutes.

Now to script it and put it in cron.