This way we will backup all except for SCM folders and jars. All Jenkins configs, jobs, logs and builds will be preserved, only built artifacts will be skipped
Backup command:
export GZIP=-9 && tar czfh - /var/lib/jenkins/ --exclude-vcs --exclude "archive" --exclude "target" --exclude "/var/lib/jenkins/docker" --exclude "/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository" | /usr/local/bin/aws s3 --region us-west-2 cp - s3://<bucket_name>/jenkins-backup.tar
Restore command:
aws s3 cp s3://confyrm-jenkins-backups/jenkins-backup.tar - | tar -C / -zxf -
