Build history disappeared. Why? & How to fix?

[Steve K]

Hello,

We are running Jenkins ver 2.150.3 served by a Windows 2008 R2 machine.

Normally, and for the majority of our jobs, when someone browses to a job's page, we see multiple builds under "Build History" on the left-hand side of the page. Normal stuff.

Recently, a few jobs have nothing under Build History.

The jobs are configured to keep 25 builds.

When I look at the Jenkins tree, on the server machine, under jobs\<jobname>\builds, I see plenty of ## (build number) directories.

For the jobs that are experiencing this problem, however, there is no "build.xml" file under the ## directories.

How could that have happened?  To my knowledge, no one deliberately set out to remove build history.

Is there a reasonable way to fix this?  (Manually re-creating each build.xml is not, what I'd consider to be, a reasonable approach).

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Mittwoch, den 08.05.2019, 11:20 -0700 schrieb Steve K:

When I look at the Jenkins tree, on the server machine, under jobs\<jobname>\builds, I see plenty of ## (build number) directories.

We've also sometimes seen this in the past when we where running the master on Windows. History usually re-apperared after restarting Jenkins. We've never seen this again since our master runs on Linux.

HTH...

Dirk

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