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Backup of jenkins.freebsd.org

Backing up Jenkins config files

Backup to local repository

1. On Jenkins server, Create local git repository at /usr/local/jenkins-config

   git init --bare /usr/local/jenkins-config/
   chown -R jenkins:jenkins /usr/local/jenkins-config/

2. Edit project description

   echo freebsd/jenkins-config > /usr/local/jenkins-config/description

3. Create hook script

   cp /usr/local/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email /usr/local/jenkins-config/hooks/post-receive

4. Add following section in /usr/local/jenkins-config/config:

   [hooks]
           mailinglist = jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org
           envelopesender = jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org
           emailprefix = "[freebsd/jenkins-config] "
           emailmaxlines = 1000
           showrev = "git show -C %s; echo"

5. Install the SCM Sync Configuration Plugin

6. Configure SCM Sync to backup to file:///usr/local/jenkins-config

7. Set up SCM Sync logging as recommended on SCM Sync Troubleshooting page

Backup to github (use with caution, sensitive data might be also published)

1. On Jenkins server, use ssh-keygen to create an SSH key under the jenkins user ID: ~jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa_github
2. On Jenkins server, add to ~jenkins/.ssh/config

   Host github
       Hostname github.com
       User git
       IdentityFile /usr/local/jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa_github

3. On github configuration page for freebsd/jenkins-config , add id_rsa_github.pub as a Deployment Key

4. Install the SCM Sync Configuration Plugin

5. Configure SCM Sync to backup to https://github.com/freebsd/jenkins-config

6. Set up SCM Sync logging as recommended on SCM Sync Troubleshooting page

Backing up of Jenkins hosts

TBD