19 backup copies in the last 24 hours, and only 4 before that, the most recent being 9 weeks ago.

I recently had to reset my realm to an earlier date because someone spawned a wither at our nether hub and destroyed much of it. I tried using one of the server backups, but I was surprised to notice that the vast majority of those backups (20 or so) only go back 24 hours, with only a handful going back further, the most recent of which is for June 3rd.

The kids who spawned the wither waited two days to tell anyone, so the server backups didn't go back far enough. Fortunately, I've been making my own backups every week or so, so I was able to choose much more recent backup than June 3rd, which would have wiped out nearly everything we've built.

Is this right? Is this a bug, or a "feature". I'm only penning this here in case it's a bug, because if it's a feature, it's not a very well-thought-out or useful one. Do we really need so many backups from the last 24 hours? Personally, I'm not going to micromanage the game to that extent, and we live with our mistakes and correct them.

This is the first time I've used a backup (well, the second, as the first was to try and reset the simulation distance … which didn't work, which is a whole other issue) and would only do so in case of griefing like this. And since it might take more than 24 hours to notice it, your backup system is not very useful.

Can't we have maybe a backup every few hours for the last 24 (maybe 8 for the day) and the rest at maybe one a day for the past week, one a week for a few months, and once a month for older realms? It would use just as much memory space, maybe a lot less in most cases, and be a lot more useful for everyone.