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: jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> < > > jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> on behalf of > gotvi...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > <gotvi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > > 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 jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com <javascript:><mailto: > > > jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > 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/e16c5852-8d61-4dab-b717-81e3b6e7849e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
