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 <slide.o....@gmail.com> 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 <lesmikes...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Steve K <steve.kerxha...@carestream.com> >> 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 >> lesmikes...@gmail.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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
