Hi John, IMHO, I'd replicate everything. Maybe, cache directory could be excluded.
Another situation is when you're backing up Jenkins, because you can exclude data that can be easily recreated or saving only config.xml from jobs (not builds). I hope be useful. Best regards, Rachel El sábado, 5 de noviembre de 2016, 3:06:55 (UTC+1), John escribió: > > Hello > > I am setting up Jenkins in Cold standby mode: 1 active server and 1 > passive in standby. > The idea is if the active Jenkins goes down, we can bring up the standby > server and it will have all the jobs/settings/plugins etc. up to date and > sync'd with Active. > > OS is Ubuntu 14. I was reading that all I have to do is replicate across > the contents of /var/lib/jenkins > > I am trying to figure out which files/dirs to replicate > > Here is what I have in this directory. Should I replicate all of this, or > exclude certain items? > > drwxrwxr-x 3 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:45 .bundle > drwxr-xr-x 3 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 26 14:54 .cache > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 2.4K Oct 24 21:09 config.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 950 Oct 16 20:34 credentials.xml > drwxr-xr-x 3 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:53 .groovy > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 159 Oct 16 20:02 > hudson.model.UpdateCenter.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 370 Oct 16 19:52 > hudson.plugins.git.GitTool.xml > -rw------- 1 jenkins jenkins 1.7K Oct 16 19:40 identity.key.enc > drwxr-xr-x 3 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:40 .java > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 6 Oct 16 20:02 > jenkins.install.InstallUtil.lastExecVersion > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 6 Oct 16 19:54 > jenkins.install.UpgradeWizard.state > drwxr-xr-x 5 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 26 14:43 jobs > drwxr-xr-x 3 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:40 logs > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 907 Oct 16 20:02 nodeMonitors.xml > drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:40 nodes > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 56 Nov 4 19:57 .owner > drwxr-xr-x 81 jenkins jenkins 12K Oct 16 19:59 plugins > drwxr-xr-x 5 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 20:43 .puppetlabs > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 129 Oct 16 20:02 queue.xml.bak > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 64 Oct 16 19:40 secret.key > -rw-r--r-- 1 jenkins jenkins 0 Oct 16 19:40 secret.key.not-so-secret > drwx------ 4 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 20:43 secrets > drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Nov 4 20:02 updates > drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:40 userContent > drwxr-xr-x 4 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 17 13:09 users > drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 16 19:53 workflow-libs > drwxr-xr-x 2 jenkins jenkins 4.0K Oct 28 15:26 workspace > > > Thanks > John > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/67e5342b-2659-4b32-9338-7936d9c67acc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
