Backup and restore

Taking frequent backups and the ability to restore them when needed is an essential requirement for any production system. In this section, we will talk about some of the strategies to back up and restore TeamCity data.

Taking backups from the server UI

Through Administration | Backup, we can take a backup of almost all the server-related files and data. The page to create backups from the TeamCity server UI is shown in the following screenshot:

Taking backups from the server UI

We can change the Backup scope option to include only Basic Data—the database and server settings, projects, build configuration, and plugins. This leaves out the build logs and personal ...

Get Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.