How to move Jenkins from one PC to another

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huahsin68 picture huahsin68 · Jan 4, 2012 · Viewed 119.4k times · Source

I am currently using Jenkins on my development PC. I installed it on my development PC, because I had limited knowledge on this tool; so I tested on it in my development PC. Now, I feel comfortable with Jenkins as my long term "partner" in the build process and would like to "move" this Jenkins to a dedicated server.

Before this I have done few builds and have the artifacts archived from each build. In particular, the build number is very important to me for version control.

How can I export all the Jenkins information from my current PC to my new server?

Answer

Cédric Julien picture Cédric Julien · Jan 4, 2012

Following the Jenkins wiki, you'll have to:

  • Install a fresh Jenkins instance on the new server
  • Be sure the old and the new Jenkins instances are stopped
  • Archive all the content of the JENKINS_HOME of the old Jenkins instance
  • Extract the archive into the new JENKINS_HOME directory
  • Launch the new Jenkins instance
  • Do not forget to change documentation/links to your new instance of Jenkins :)
  • Do not forget to change the owner of the new Jenkins files : chown -R jenkins:jenkins $JENKINS_HOME

JENKINS_HOME is by default located in ~/.jenkins on a Linux installation, yet to exactly find where it is located, go on the http://your_jenkins_url/configure page and check the value of the first parameter: Home directory; this is the JENKINS_HOME.

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