Once you have your config.xml files backed-up you should be able to restore your jobs, through Rest API. For old buils, if they are important you should make other arrangements...
Backing-up entire .jenkins directory, should help too, but you'll need more space of course. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Slide <[email protected]> wrote: > I've actually done the opposite of this to migrate from our internal build > tool to Jenkins a few years ago. The config.xml files that have the build > info are pretty easy to parse if you are looking for a way to do that, any > XML library for any language you are familiar with would make quick work of > them. > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Steve K <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > We invest so much time and effort into maintaining Jenkins jobs, I fear >> that >> > my organization would be "dead in the water" if Jenkins went down. >> > I'd like a way to extract the build steps from the config files--tuning >> them >> > into an executable script. >> > It seems possible to translate the config file into a shell script or >> batch >> > file. >> > Has anyone already done this? >> > >> >> Most of our build steps simply run scripts that are checked in with >> the source and work the same in jenkins as a developer's desktop. >> But, we also keep the jenkins system backed up so it wouldn't be too >> hard to spin up a new machine as a replacement if needed. I'm not >> sure why you would want yet another way to do it. >> >> -- >> Les Mikesell >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > -- > Website: http://earl-of-code.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
