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    Jenkins backup using a Jenkins job.

The following script was taken from https://cloud.google.com/solutions/images/auto-customize-back-script.png which was
mentioned in this article https://cloud.google.com/solutions/automated-build-images-with-jenkins-kubernetes .
It creates a tar of jenkins master important files as backup.

It must be run on jenkins master where $JENKINS_HOME is set and points to Jenkins home directory.
rm -rf *
mkdir -p $BUILD_ID/jobs
cp $JENKINS_HOME/*.xml $BUILD_ID/

# secrets
cp $JENKINS_HOME/*.key $BUILD_ID/ 2>/dev/null || :
cp $JENKINS_HOME/*.key.* $BUILD_ID/ 2>/dev/null || :
cp $JENKINS_HOME/secrets $BUILD_ID/ 2>/dev/null || :

#Users
cp $JENKINS_HOME/users $BUILD_ID/ 2>/dev/null || :

#Jobs and NO history
rsync -am --include="config.xml" \
  --include="*/" \
  --exclude='*' \
  --prune-empty-dirs \
  $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/ $BUILD_ID/jobs/

# archive and clean
tar cvf $BUILD_ID.tar.gz $BUILD_ID/
cp $BUILD_ID.tar.gz LATEST.tar.gz
rm -rf $BUILD_ID