Disaster recovery in Jenkins

Operating a Jenkins master from a single machine inherently creates a Single Point of Failure (SPOF). If the Jenkins master was lost for any reason, rebuilding it could be time consuming and may not be very easy. If the Jenkins master is lost or destroyed, there may be a crippling impact on your organization's ability to build, test, or release. Let's address this and create a disaster-recovery plan for Jenkins to ensure a high level of availability and quick turnaround time for any failures that may occur.

Jenkins snapshot backups

Snapshot backups of the $JENKINS_HOME directory can provide a level of fault tolerance, and offer an effective solution for system-wide backups. There are a number of Jenkins plugins that ...

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