We need to tell the Periodic Backup plugin what to back up, where to back up, and how frequent to back up before we even start using it. Follow the given steps:
- From the Jenkins dashboard go to Manage Jenkins | Periodic Backup Manager.
- When you access the Periodic Backup Manager for the first time you will see the following notification:
The Periodic Backup plugin has not been configured yet. Click here to configure it.
- Click on the Click here to configure it link.
- You will be taken to the Periodic Backup Manager page, and you will find quite a few options to configure. Let us see them one by one (as shown in the following screenshot).
- The Root Directory, <your Jenkins home directory>, is your Jenkins ...