I don't know whether I may use and customize this freely.

• mkdir -p /root/backup/tmp/jenkins-backup/jobs/XXXX-pull/
• cp '/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/dphelp-pull/.xml' /root/backup/tmp/jenkins-backup/jobs/XXXX-pull/
  cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/XXXX-pull/.xml': そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません

Failed on line: 43
SouceFile missing

Hi, is there a way to exclude stuff from the backup ? Like jobs etc ? I'm only interested in restoring the jenkins config and plugins to another server but no jobs

Thanks

I'm using Jenkins build 1608 and the script 0.1.0. It ran with the error below:
...

• cp -R '/home/TaiTT/apg/jenkins/users/' '/home/TaiTT/apg/jenkins/workspace/Jenkins Weekly Backup/tmp/jenkins-backup/users'
  cp: cannot stat `/home/TaiTT/apg/jenkins/users/': No such file or directory
  Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
  [ExclusiveBuildWrapper] Canceling Jenkins shutdown mode...
  Finished: FAILURE

認証情報が入ってますので

I used the script from /root with the command ./jenkins-backup-script/ /var/lib/jenkins archive.tar.gz. I expected to now have a file called /root/archive.tar.gz.

However the console prints

+ mv -f /root/jenkins-backup-script/tmp/archive.tar.gz archive.tar.gz
mv: '/root/jenkins-backup-script/tmp/archive.tar.gz' and 'archive.tar.gz' are the same file

and my backup is in /root/jenkins-backup-script/tmp/archive.tar.gz

Provide example restore commands, mention that jenkins must be stopped if needed.

The title says it all. You can't cd to the jobs folder when it hasn't been created yet since the folder is new and hasn't had any jobs added yet.

Here's how it can be fixed:

In backup-jenkins.sh line 51 says

cd "$run_in_path"
Add this line before it and a corresponding "fi" after the "done"

if [ -d "$run_in_path" ] ; then

I know, I'm being lazy and not submitting a patch. Sorry. Never done that on GitHub before and don't want to learn for a single line. Someday ...

Structure in $JENKINS_HOME/jobs:

$ tree -d .
.
├── github_org
│   └── jobs
│       ├── gh_job_a
│       └── gh_job_b
└── regular_folder
    └── jobs
        ├── job_a
        └── job_b

Structure after unpacking backup:

$ tree -d .
.
├── github_org
└── regular_folder
    └── jobs
        ├── job_a
        └── job_b

Hi, what about secrets folder? Not sure if relevant but I've seen other guys doing backup for that also (http://www.clausconrad.com/blog/backup-jenkins-configuration-to-s3).

error like this:

-bash-4.1$ ./jenkins-backup.sh /var/lib/jenkins archive20140329.tar.gz
mkdir: cannot create directory /opt/jenkins_jobs/backup_job/tmp/jenkins-backup': No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory/opt/jenkins_jobs/backup_job/tmp/jenkins-backup/plugins': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/jenkins_jobs/backup_job/tmp/jenkins-backup/jobs': No such file or directory

I think should use "mkdir -p" instead of "mkdir"

Build fails since nodes/ dir is empty:

Output:

+ '[' -d /var/jenkins_home/nodes/ ']'
+ cp -R '/var/jenkins_home/nodes/*' '/var/jenkins_home/jobs/Backups - Daily Job/workspace/tmp/jenkins-backup/nodes'
cp: cannot stat ‘/var/jenkins_home/nodes/*’: No such file or directory
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
[ExclusiveBuildWrapper] Canceling Jenkins shutdown mode... 
Finished: FAILURE

You could use an extra conditional to prevent this from happening if dir is empty (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-shell-check-if-directory-empty/), like:

if [ "$(ls -A $DIR)" ]; then

For example

A job in jenkins:
.../jenkins/workspace/Folder1/User1/TestJob/config.xml

After backup, the path will be:
/jenkins-backup/jobs/Folder1/jobs/User1/jobs/TestJob/config.xml

need to mention in guideline, the job shall be run in master server to access those configuration

This script may happen to have an Error with line 31

./jenkins-backup.sh: line 31: [: 引数が多すぎます

Maybe this ocurre by
if [ -f "$JENKINS_HOME/plugins/".hpi.pinned -o -f "$JENKINS_HOME/plugins/".jpi.pinned ] ; then

"$JENKINS_HOME/plugins/"*.jpi.pinned
this wild card line will extract many file list.

Like this:
"-o -f /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/ant.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/antisamy-markup-formatter.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/credentials.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/cvs.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/javadoc.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/junit.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/ldap.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/mailer.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/matrix-auth.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/matrix-project.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/maven-plugin.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/pam-auth.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/ssh-slaves.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/subversion.jpi.pinned /var/lib/jenkins//plugins/translation.jpi.pinned ']'"

to fix this. (just idea)
readonly hpi.pinned_count=$(find $JENKINS_HOME/plugins/ -name *.jhi.pinned | wc -l)
readonly jpi.pinned_count=$(find $JENKINS_HOME/plugins/ -name *.jpi.pinned | wc -l)
if [ $hpi.pinned_count -ne 0 -o jpi.pinned_count -ne 0 ]; then

よろしくお願いします。