December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
362 pages
8h 35m
English
What happens if someone accidentally deletes important Jenkins configurations? Although this can be avoided using stringent user permissions that we will see in the User Administration section, imagine a situation where someone working on the Jenkins configuration wants to restore to a previous stable Jenkins configuration.
From what we have learned so far, we know that the entire Jenkins configuration is stored under the Jenkins home directory. It is C:\jenkins (Windows), /var/jenkins_home (Apache Tomcat), /var/lib/jenkins (Linux). In the following section, we will learn how to back up and restore the Jenkins configuration using a plugin, the Periodic Backup plugin.
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