Unless you're in the habit of manually patching things in plugins, it's sufficient to backup only the top level files (.jpi/.hpi/.disabled/.pinned). The folders are just the files extracted for use by Jenkins.
On 29.03.2014, at 00:57, Mishael Kim <mish...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what most of you guys do to backup the plugins themselves. > JENKINS_HOME/plugins is pretty big in itself. If I wanted to back a snapshot > of all of the plugins and had a situation that I needed to start from scratch > again, do I really need the complete JENKINS_HOME/plugins folder? Any other > tips for backing up the plugins? > > Thanks, > Mishael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
