What is the easiest way to get Jenkins configuration data?

[John R. Cary]

It would be nice to get a dump that one could reload in
another jenkins installation or to help one configure another
installation.

Thx....John Cary

[Christopher Orr]

Hi there,

On 16/01/2012 15:05, John R. Cary wrote:
> It would be nice to get a dump that one could reload in
> another jenkins installation or to help one configure another
> installation.

The configuration information is all under $JENKINS_HOME.  If you copy
that to another machine, you're done.

See this wiki page for more info:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins

Regards,
Chris

[John R. Cary]

On 1/16/12 11:55 AM, Christopher Orr wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On 16/01/2012 15:05, John R. Cary wrote:
>> It would be nice to get a dump that one could reload in
>> another jenkins installation or to help one configure another
>> installation.
>
> The configuration information is all under $JENKINS_HOME.  If you copy
> that to another machine, you're done.
>
> See this wiki page for more info:
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins

Thanks much.

Just so that I understand...  that would copy all the jobs and builds
too?

Thx...John Cary

[Didier Durand]

Hi,

As said by Christopher, the jenkins cofnig is represented by the files
(no the directories) that you find on $JENKINS_HOME.

If you also copy the directory, then you will copy the jobs and their
builds as well

If you want to extract easily the jenkins config plus the job configs,
I would suggest to use the ThinBackup plugin:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/thinBackup

It will do that for you and copy all the files whereever you want.

regards

didier

On Jan 17, 4:19 am, "John R. Cary" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 1/16/12 11:55 AM, Christopher Orr wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > On 16/01/2012 15:05, John R. Cary wrote:
> >> It would be nice to get a dump that one could reload in
> >> another jenkins installation or to help one configure another
> >> installation.
>
> > The configuration information is all under $JENKINS_HOME.  If you copy
> > that to another machine, you're done.
>
> > See this wiki page for more info:
> >https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Just so that I understand...  that would copy all the jobs and builds
> too?
>
> Thx...John Cary