Python Jenkins Backup Restore Module

jenkins-backup-restore-cli module takes a backup of the jenkins home directory and restores it as required.

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Prerequisites

• python2.7 or higher
• pip or pip3

Installation

Run the following command to install the jenkins-backup-restore-cli,

pip3 install jenkins-backup-restore-cli

What does it do?

The jenkins-backup-restore-cli tool will backup the jenkins_home directory as well as restores it.

Backup

• The backup module will look for a jenkins-home directory
• Tar it into a temporary directory.
• Copy the tarfile to an user specified location or to a AWS s3 bucket.
• Delete the temporary directory (can be persisted with --persist-tmp-archive)

Restore

• The restore module will look for a jenkins-home directory that needs to be restored
• create a tmp directory and copy the tarfile or download the tarfile from an s3 bucket to it.
• Untar the tarfile in that temporary directory
• Make a copy of existing jenkins_home directory
• Replace the old jenkins_home with the untarred jenkins_home
• Delete the temporary directory (can be persisted with --persist-tmp-archive)

Backup and restore

jenkins-backup-restore-cli common options for both backup and restore,

Common Options

--version

Shows version number of the package

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --version

--custom-archive-name

To create a backup tarfile with the custom name,

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --custom-archive-name my-backup

Note: If not provided, it will backup with the default name (default: jenkins_backup.tar.gz)

--jenkins-home-dir

• user should provide a --jenkins-home-dir.
• If the user specified directory does not exists, tool looks for a default location (default: /var/jenkins_home)
• If the default location does not exists, the tool will look for an JENKINS_HOME environment variable.

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --jenkins-home-dir /var/lib/jenkins

Note: In above each step the tool will throw a warning and throws an error if environment variable does not exists or
the path set in the value does not exists.

Commands

Backup Commands

To backup jenkins_home, either one of the following commands with arguments can be used,

• backup-local - Take a backup in the local machine (same machine where jenkins is running)

  • --backup-destination-path, local path to store the backup

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --jenkins-home-dir <jenkins_home> backup-local --backup-destination-path <local-path>

• backup-s3 - Take a backup and push it to an s3 bucket

  • --backup-bucket-name, s3 bucket name to store the backup.
  • --persist-tmp-archive, persists(True) or delete(False) the archive, in the temporary path once the archive pushed to s3 bucket (default: False)

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --jenkins-home-dir <jenkins_home> backup-s3 --backup-bucket-name <bucket-name> --persist-tmp-archive True

Restore Commands

To restore jenkins_home, either one of the following commands with arguments can be used,

• restore-local - Restore from a local jenkins backup tarfile

  • --restore-archive-path, local path to the backup tarfile
  • --persist-tmp-archive, persists(True) or delete(False) the archive in the temporary path once the archive is extracted to jenkins_home (default: False)

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --jenkins-home-dir <jenkins_home> restore-local --restore-archive-path <path-to-backup-tarfile> --persist-tmp-archive True

• restore-s3 - Restore from a s3 bucket

  • --restore-bucket-name, bucket name to download the archive from
  • --restore-archive-download-path, local path to download the archive from s3 bucket
  • --persist-tmp-archive, persists(True) or delete(False) the archive in the temporary path once the archive is extracted to jenkins_home (default: False)

jenkins-backup-restore-cli --jenkins-home-dir <jenkins_home> restore-s3 --restore-bucket-path <bucket-name> --restore-archive-download-path <local-path-to-download-tarfile> --persist-tmp-archive True

Note: For any help, use --help flag.

Dockerfile

A Dockerfile that has the jenkins-backup-restore-cli latest package installed on it.

Helm Chart

A Helm chart for the jenkins-backup-restore-cli tool to perform backup and restore on Jenkins pod running in a Kubernetes cluster, find a README.md here.

Contributions

All source code is hosted on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.
Contribution Guide here

Happy CI/CD!! 🚀