If you're already losing everything on each upgrade, then it may be worth considering a change to a more standard way of managing the Jenkins installation. The https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Red+Hat+distributions page describes how to install Jenkins on Red Hat derived operating systems. You might consider installing it using that technique, then restore your backup into the /var/lib/jenkins/ directory that is created by the install process.
I'm not fluent enough in systemd and Red Hat configuration to be able to help through e-mail questions, answers, and diagnosis. Mark Waite On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:09 PM Giacomo Boccardo <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately I didn't install it the first time, so I don't know how it > has been installed exactly. What I can see is that: > > - Docker is surely not used > - it's on a CentOS Linux 7 virtual machine which has never been > restarted since the first upgrade > - it has been installed in the home of a user without creating a > directory to contain the installation itself > - /home/jenkins/war contains the following files (strange way to name > them, considering that I'm using the version 2.60.1, and the backup of a > version should probably be the previously installed one): > - > - 70611723 Jun 23 21:37 jenkins-2.46.2.war > - 70340821 May 25 23:55 jenkins-2.46.2.war.bak > - 70611723 Jun 23 21:37 jenkins-2.46.2.war.tmp > - 6 Jun 23 22:01 jenkins.pid > - 18 May 11 16:05 jenkins.war -> jenkins-2.46.2.war > - it's launched using the service > - > > [Unit] > > Description=jenkins service > > After=network.target network-online.target > > Wants=network-online.target > > > [Service] > > Type=forking > > ExecStart=/home/jenkins/bin/jenkins.sh start > > ExecStop=/home/jenkins/bin/jenkins.sh stop > > PIDFile=/home/jenkins/war/jenkins.pid > > User=jenkins > > > [Install] > > WantedBy=multi-user.target > - > > where jenkins.sh is a script very similar to > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/devel:tools:building/jenkins/jenkins.init?expand=1 > and the resulting command is "/home/jenkins/java/bin/java > -Djava.awt.headless=true -DJENKINS_HOME=/home/jenkins/jenkins-home -jar > /home/jenkins/war/jenkins.war --webroot=/home/jenkins/jenkins-home > --httpPort=8080 --debug=5 --handlerCountMax=100 --handlerCountMaxIdle=20 > --logfile=/home/jenkins/log/jenkins.log" > > > Please let me know if you need any further information. > > > Thanks, > Giacomo > > On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 7:31:54 PM UTC+2, Mark Waite wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:25 AM Giacomo Boccardo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using Jenkins 2.60.1 and after every automatic upgrade I did for >>> the latest three LTS the installation loses everything (configurations, >>> jobs, plugins, etc.): it's exactly like a fresh installation. I didn't see >>> anything in the logs related to the actions happened before, during or >>> after the installation. >>> Have you ever experienced such a behavior? >>> >>> >> I've never seen a behavior like that. Are you using a docker image for >> your base, and possibly forgetting to use a volume to retain the data? >> >> Mark Waite >> >> > Thanks in advance, >>> Giacomo >>> >>> -- >>> 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]. >> >> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/f5cc73d1-6de9-4399-b08f-5a8714fba45f%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/f5cc73d1-6de9-4399-b08f-5a8714fba45f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/7283e876-fcf6-441b-af12-7fac52cb86d7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/7283e876-fcf6-441b-af12-7fac52cb86d7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtH_KwTU_4ZZaas-scEDUNCYcUX%3DCT7AksYyRzg1tqxb6g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
