The plugin team's been unresponsive for ages. No help there. On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:49:17 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Have you considered sending a PR to (or at least filing a Github issue > for) the plugins in question? > > > > It's probably an easy fix to handle symlinks > > > > Best > > Jeff > > On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 1:35:04 PM UTC-8, john.mellor wrote: >> >> I have had restore issues with *ALL* of the backup plugins that I have >> tried. The problem is that they are using stupid mechanisms to copy >> the filesystem that cannot correctly copy a symlink. This breaks the >> LastSuccessfulBuild and LastUnsuccessfulBuild and LastFailedBuild >> symlinks, causing lots of secondary issues. >> >> Doing my own using cpio or rsync in a cronjob only messes up copying >> very large files that exceed the archive limits (4GB for cpio for >> instance). >> >> >> On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 21:12 +0000, Artur Szostak wrote: >> > Just my opinion: but I would forget about the backup plugins in >> > Jenkins for full production backups. They all do a poor job when it >> > comes to a full backup for a production system that also needs high >> > availability. The best that can be done at the moment is to run >> > Jenkins on a file system or data store that is able to perform copy- >> > on-write snapshots. From within Jenkins you will want to setup a >> > simple job that triggers the copy-on-write snapshot when no other job >> > is running. Then use your normal production backup solutions to >> > backup the snapshot in the background. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Artur >> > >> > ________________________________________ >> > From: [email protected] < >> > [email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] >> > <[email protected]> >> > Sent: 01 November 2018 21:36 >> > To: Jenkins Users >> > Subject: Jenkins Backup and Restore >> > >> > We have a Jenkins instance running and we are trying to setup a >> > backup and restore mechanism in case of any mishaps. We are looking >> > for a full backup of the Jenkins and so decided to go with >> > PeriodicBackup plugin. With this plugin, the backup works >> > fine. But, we are trying to restore it in a completely new Jenkins >> > setup and not able to restore. When we pick the backup file that we >> > want to restore from, it says restoring, but nothing happens. Even >> > after waiting out for over 30 mins, nothing is restored. As a work >> > around, I stopped the Jenkins service, renamed the 'JENKINS_HOME' >> > (/var/lib/jenkins) folder to 'jenkins_backup' and created another >> > folder called 'jenkins' in the same location. In this folder, I >> > copied all the files from the backup and then started Jenkins (NOTE: >> > I didn't change the .owner file. I'm using the .owner file of the >> > new Jenkins only). Jenkins came up and I was able to see all the >> > configurations from the old one. Everything was fine. I let it like >> > that overnight and in the morning when I came and tried to access it, >> > Jenkins was way too slow and I was not able to save any new >> > configuration. When I try I'm getting >> > java.io.ioexception: too many open files jenkins >> > error. I restarted the jenkins and it's taking too long for the UI >> > to come up. Am I doing anything wrong here? Any suggestions for my >> > requirement? >> > >> > P.S. - I tried SCMSync plugin and ThinBackup. But, problem with >> > these are that they don't do full backup. But, with ThinBackup both >> > backup and restore works fine. >> > >> > -- >> > 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]<mailto: >> > [email protected]>. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/0c58b4fa-4e8b-4c53-9ca9-b99397078fae%40googlegroups.com >> < >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/0c58b4fa-4e8b-4c53-9ca9-b99397078fae%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> >> >> > ;. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> >
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