Build history problem

[Hector Magnanao]

I was recently trying to move my home directory for Jenkins to a new folder when I discovered that all my build history is gone.  How do I recover the build history for my past builds ?  I am running Jenkins 1.625.2 on Windows 2008 R2.

[Victor Martinez]

What steps did you do? Have you override the JENKINS_HOME env variable? You can find further details about that process:

- https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Administering+Jenkins

Cheers

[Hector Magnanao]

I found out what I did wrong and got my build history back.  As to your question above,  I did the steps by creating an environment variable in Jenkins for my new Jenkins home and restarted the server.  I think the problem is that I'm running Jenkins as a windows service and it's still pointing to the old home directory. That's why I still am pointed to the old home directory.  How do I modify my Jenkins service to the new home directory ?

[Victor Martinez]

There are a couple of places as you can see in the below links:

- https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Windows+service

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12689139/how-to-change-jenkins-default-folder-on-windows

Although there are some other references in some previous entries in this group:

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/jenkinsci-users/2WqENsDxiac/Eu0aHO5WIVgJ

Cheers