Backup jobs for Hudson

Hudson has new version every week. Before migration I recommend backup jobs and plugins. For backup you can used my hudson-manager. It’s Ant script with some targets. Source you can see at http://gist.github.com/231775.

In manager.properties you set directories and days after delete old backups.

To run backup use cron with this parameters:

05 10,15 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/ant -f /srv/hudson/hudson-manager/manager.xml backupOnlyJobs
05 19 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/ant -f /srv/hudson/hudson-manager/manager.xml backup

Bigger backup i make one per day and minor backup (jobs only) twice per day. In full backup are stored plugins and jobs. Sometimes you can after upgrade plugins and backup is useful.