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Possible to Export Jobs? [message #1717664]

Tue, 15 December 2015 15:42

Shelli Orton

Messages: 101
Registered: September 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

We were running Hudson on an older Linux server and when we tried to upgrade to v.3.3.2 we started encountering issues with older OS libraries that there wasn't upgrades for. So, we have set up a new server and have installed Hudson on it. There's quite a lot of jobs on the old server and recreating them manually on the new one will be a big task.

The question is, is there a way to export or migrate our jobs from the old server to the new one?

Thanks!

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Re: Possible to Export Jobs? [message #1717677 is a reply to message #1717664]

Tue, 15 December 2015 18:43

Bob Foster

Messages: 85
Registered: January 2013

Member

You can get the config.xml for a job on older system by, e.g.,

http://localhost:8080/job/Job1/config.xml > config.xml

Where localhost:8080 is replaced with your Hudson server host name.

Then for non-team jobs, you can use createItem to POST the config.xml as documented in the /api/ at:

http://localhost:8080/api/

For team or non-team jobs, you can also use the CLI:

java -jar hudson-cli.jar create-job args...
Creates a new job by reading stdin or file as a configuration XML file
NAME : Name of the job to create. The job name should not be
team qualified. Ex: job1.
TEAM : Team to create the job in. Optional.
-file VAL : Read config.xml from file rather than standard input.
--username VAL : User name to authenticate yourself to Hudson
--password VAL : Password for authentication. Note that passing a
password in arguments is insecure.
--password-file VAL : File that contains the password

See also 'java -jar hudson-cli.jar login' so you don't have to specify credentials each time.

It is possible to script this with a little effort. E.g., the CLI list-jobs command will list all the jobs on a server, etc.

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