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[Chris Johnston <chris.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We need to ensure that the dashboard DB is being backed up please.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Andy Doan <andy.doan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/23/2013 10:13 AM, Paul Larson wrote:
>
>> I don't see any reason to keep them, and archiving/removing them would
>> probably be good for the overall health of jenkins. Larry, is there a
>> best practice for doing this? I would think just backup the job
>> directories, remove them, and restart jenkins? We could, of course,
>> remove them through the jenkins api also, but rm/restart may be quite a
>> bit faster.
>>
>
> We could probably write a groovy script for jenkins that takes in a list
> of regexes. Then for each job that matches on of the regexs we:
>
>   copy to a backup directory
>   delete the job
>
> This is probably slow but has 2 nice benefits:
>
> 1) easy to test. we could make the script do a dry run the first time
>
> 2) eliminates downtime
>
> -andy
>
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