Tried out a bunch of them. Unfortunately, none of them are good for a production scale.
On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > The beauty of Jenkins is that it's NOT built-in, but can be easily added > as a plugin (of which there are several). > > On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 1:41:19 PM UTC-8, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> I wish for a tool like Jenkins it had a backup and restore option built >> in. >> >> On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-5, 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. >>> > >>> >> -- 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/f5625308-1145-4d77-b021-62be8a779592%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
