He's saying that if you don't need to backup and restore your job definitions (possibly they are all multibranch Pipeline jobs that are easy to recreate, or they are all defined with the Job DSL plugin so they will be automatically recreated or they are defined in a Docker image) and don't need to backup and restore your credential definitions (same reasons) and don't need to backup and restore other configuration settings (possibly because you're using Configuration as Code plugin to store your configuration in a source control system), then there are backup concepts that use a source control system as your backup system.
In your use case, I suspect you want to use a backup. Mark Waite On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 7:50 AM <gotviser...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what you are trying to say? > > On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 8:03:34 PM UTC-5, rajendraprasad reddy > wrote: >> >> Hi , >> I have another solution, just document the list of plugins in old Jenkins >> server and instead of backup and restore plugins just reinstall plugins on >> new Jenkins server. >> >> Thanks, >> Rajendra >> >> On Fri, 2 Nov, 2018, 02:06 <gotvi...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> 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 jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/9d3fad8e-7bbe-4472-86dd-57ef3d0da960%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/9d3fad8e-7bbe-4472-86dd-57ef3d0da960%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thanks! Mark Waite -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtH-ydL8JkmnFurJ06s%2BEn-b%3DWaNmb_KT%3DBFiz6mbZK8QQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
