Backup Jenkins Config Daily Job

.gitignore

# Last tested in Jenkins 2.22

*
!/.gitignore
!/*.xml
!/nextBuildNumber

!/jobs
!/jobs/*
!/jobs/*/*.xml
/jobs/*/disk-usage.xml
/jobs/*/builds

!plugins
!plugins/*.jpi

!/users
!/users/**/
!/users/**/*.xml

job.sh

cd $JENKINS_HOME

git config --global user.email "jenkins@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Jenkins"


git add -A .
git status
git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git commit -m "Automated Jenkins commit"
git push origin master

SETUP.md

1. Create an empty repo in your Git provider of choice (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab). I usually call it jenkins-config.
2. Login to your Jenkins machine, cd into JENKINS_HOME (e.g. /var/lib/jenkins).
3. To avoid permissions issues do this as the same user Jenkins runs as.
4. git init and setup your remote origin.
5. In the Jenkins interface, create job StoreConfigInGit and paste the contents of run.sh in an Execute Shell block.
6. One it runs successfully, configure it to "Build Periodically" @daily