Jenkins Backup & Restore

An easy way to perform Jenkins Backup and Restore. The Jenkins Backup Plugin has some nice options, but this just seemed simpler and more what I actually wanted. Plus I didn't have to shut down Jenkins to get the job backup information.

Requirements

• Gradle >=4.x
• Java 1.8
• Requires a file /src/main/resources/application.properties with the following values substituted with your Jenkins configuration

# Jenkins Configuration
backupConfiguration.jenkinsUsername=yourUsername
backupConfiguration.jenkinsPassword=yourPassword
backupConfiguration.jenkinsServerAddress=https://your-jenkins-server.com

Execution

Two backup modes for persistence are currently available - file system and database. Modes are activated by Spring Profiles found in the JVM arguments. These are required arguments and the application will fail immediately if a mode is not specified.

If using database mode, configure the database connection information in application.properties. For example, the following will configure a local instance of PostgreSQL. Refer to Spring Boot documentation for using other database vendors.

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/backups
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=password
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL94Dialect

Compile and build

./gradlew clean build

Run

./gradlew -Dspring.profiles.active=[file|database] bootRun

Because the project is built with Spring Boot, the program can be executed directly with the java -jar command. Simply specify the Spring Profile to activate and the location of the JAR file (typically in ./build/libs/).