You could pass the job definition file from the original server to the Jenkins command line interface "create-job" command and let it create the job for you.
Refer to http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/create-jobs-td2320262.html for a past e-mail exchange on the topic. Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: Z W <mpc8...@gmail.com> >To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:57 AM >Subject: Copy/Replicate jobs in Hudson - How - Quick question > >Hi All > >We have a long list of jobs that we like to copy/replicate over to a >new Hudson server. >Are the steps/documents that we could follow to help us accomplish that ? > >Reconfigure jobs by hand is too prone to mistakes. > >Thanks > > >